Balvenie STORIES 27 Years Old A Rare Discovery from Distant Shores is a limited-edition 27-year-old Speyside single malt Scotch whisky, bottled at 48 per cent in a 0.7-litre bottle and presented in an elaborately designed gift box. This bottling is part of The Balvenie Stories Collection, which combines the personal experiences of long-serving employees at the distillery in Dufftown with exceptional whisky creations. The inspiration for this edition came from Malt Master David C. Stewart MBE and his long-standing friend and colleague John Barrett. Barrett once brought a sample of the now highly sought-after Caroni rum from Trinidad to the distillery’s sample room, thereby laying the foundations for an extraordinary cask experiment.


To bring the project to life, The Balvenie had rare Caroni rum casks shipped to Scotland, in which the full-bodied rum had previously been matured for ten years in Trinidad. David Stewart ultimately decided to fill these special casks with a 20-year-old Balvenie Single Malt and allow it to mature further. After a total of 27 years’ maturation, this resulted in ‘A Rare Discovery from Distant Shores’, in which the typical Balvenie style is deliberately combined with the intense influence of the now-closed Caroni Distillery. Due to the limited quantity of whisky, the bottling was intended to be available for a period of just two years. The packaging also reflects this history: a bespoke illustration by British artist Andy Lovell depicts David Stewart in his Sample Room, making this limited edition particularly appealing to collectors of exceptional Balvenie whiskies with a rum cask finish.

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