The Balvenie’s ‘Week of Peat’ Hits Global Travel Retail With A New Taste Of Elegance
The Stories Range of whiskies chronicles tales of true character which are crafted into exciting single malts that celebrate human stories of endeavour and unexpected twists as told by The Balvenie distillery’s master craftsmen in Dufftown, Scotland.
Its latest addition – The Balvenie Week of Peat Aged 19 Years – is no exception.
Available exclusively to global travel retail, The Week of Peat Aged 19 Years is a 19-year-old take on the delicately smoky Limited Edition, adding a footnote of sweet and warming spices to its honeyed flavour.
The Week of Peat Aged 19 Years is exceedingly rich, luxuriously smooth, flaunting notes of fresh citrus, of creamy vanilla and underpinned by a distinctive oak and Balvenie’s signature, honeyed character.
The legendary Highlander, Ian Millar, who served as The Balvenie’s Distillery Manager, originally inspired The Week of Peat. Always craving experimentation with The Balvenie profile, and using what he had learnt from a trip to Islay, Millar discovered a week’s gap in the distillery schedule and rushed off to the kiln with a batch of Speyside peat. Today, and uniquely, the distillery creates peated whisky using Speyside peat for only one week every year.
