The centerpiece of the 2024 collection is the Brora 1977 cask, described as "vanishingly rare" and one of the most exceptional casks known to Diageo's whisky makers.
"If you buy a hogshead cask, you will end up with 300 bottles and they are all the same. "But because we are a small distillery, we generally offer casks with only 40 or 50 litres of whisky in them.
These casks offer a rich ... are more than twice the capacity of a traditional whisky hogshead, we have to ensure that we ...
As a result, if maturation needs to be sped up the whisky can be matured in a quarter cask. This cask holds around 50 litres of liquid in comparison to a 250-litre hogshead. As such, the ratio of ...
The Balvenie’s new 50-year-old single malt whisky is the first of a trio of ultra-aged scotches.