{"product_id":"balmenach-8-year-old-2001-smws-single-1st-fill-bourbon-cask-48-22-sweet-with-citric-elegance-speyside-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2009-70cl","title":"Balmenach 8 Year Old 2001 SMWS Single 1st Fill Bourbon Cask 48.22 Sweet, with citric elegance Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2009) 70cl","description":"\u003ch2\u003eBalmenach 8 Year Old 2001 SMWS Single 1st Fill Bourbon Cask 48.22 Sweet, with citric elegance Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2009) 70cl\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1 of 213 bottles produced\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eScotch Malt Whisky Society\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas founded in Edinburgh in 1983 by Phillip 'Pip' Hills who, while travelling around Scotland in the 1970s, fell in love with whiskies drawn straight from the cask. After he expanded his syndicate the Society was purchased by Glenmorangie PLC in 2004. In 2015, the Society was sold back to private investors. In June 2021, the private owners floated the holding company The Artisanal Spirits Company plc on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt has a unique code system where the first number refers to the distillery and the second refers to the cask from which the bottle comes. SMWS also offers the largest range of distilleries of any independent bottler. These curiously named drams really do have something for every whisky lover!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe SMWS are one of the Britain's most revered independent bottlers with a worldwide network of partner bars with one mission of getting as much whisky at natural cask strength without water to different nations including USA, Canada, Switzerland, UK, Austria, Germany and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese older labels from the first runs are mostly with distillation methods that include direct heat which was replaced with steam for many distilleries for environmental reasons changing the taste of whisky forever. It'll get real interesting when nuclear fusion is used to distil whisky. We might glow green for a few weeks after we drink the stuff. Who knows.... but all we know is that the old stuff has a musky taste that is VERY welcomed by people nowadays trying to time travel through whisky's past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout Balmenach\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSituated in the district of Cromdale on the banks of the River Spey the distillery stands in beneath the nearby hill of Tom Lethendry where the Jacobites were defeated in the Battle of Cromdale in 1690.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBalmenach Distillery is one of the earliest distilleries sanctioned as a result of the Excise Act 1823. In 1897 the distillery was purchased by Glenlivet and was served by its own railway branch off the Strathspey Railway until 1969. The distillery closed in 1941 and re-opened in 1947, following expansion of its facilities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Distillery is owned by Inver House Distillers Limited, a privately owned distiller whose other distilleries include: Speyburn-Glenlivet Distillery; Knockdhu Distillery; Balblair Distillery; and, Old Pulteney Distillery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e57.3% ABV\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e70cl\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Balmenach","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52789660254546,"sku":"BAL8SMWS48.22","price":145.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1052\/9737\/9666\/files\/Balmenach8YearOld2001SMWSSingle1stFillBourbonCask48.22Sweet_withcitriceleganceSpeysideSingleMaltScotchWhisky_2009_70cl.jpg?v=1771951609","url":"https:\/\/whiskysituation.co.uk\/products\/balmenach-8-year-old-2001-smws-single-1st-fill-bourbon-cask-48-22-sweet-with-citric-elegance-speyside-single-malt-scotch-whisky-2009-70cl","provider":"Whisky Situation","version":"1.0","type":"link"}