Bottle No 11848 

This elusive malt from William Grant's Dufftown complex was matured in "a mix of Hogshead and Sherry butts" for 23 years.

The Kininvie Distillery is one of the youngest distilleries in Scotland having only opened in 1990. It is actually on the grounds of the Balvenie distillery, where is gets the liquid to ferment it's whisky as it doesn't even have its own mash house. Until recently almost all of its whisky was used in the blended whiskies of William Grant & Sons. Kininvie was closed in 2010, when Grant's Ailsa Bay distillery became operational but is now open again and producing whisky under its own label. 

With the blossoming success of its Glenfiddich and Balvenie single malt brands, William Grant & Sons decided to open a third distillery on their Dufftown estate in 1990. This distillery was Kininvie, and it eased pressure on Glenfiddich and Balvenie by shouldering the responsibility of provision for the company's blends. In recent years it has become the key component in the best-selling Monkey Shoulder blended malt, but occasional distillery bottlings of its single malt have been produced over the years, initially as limited releases for the Hazelwood brand, and later under its own name too. The first of the Hazelwood single malts was a 15 year old in 2006, with the Kininvie single malt brand launched in 2013. The distillery is also home to the Kininvie Works "innovation arm" of the company, and released the first experimental whiskies produced there in 2019.