Kininvie 1990 23 Year Old Batch #001 35cl

The first official release from Kininvie. The elusive malt from William Grant's Dufftown complex.

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.

Distilled in 1990 and matured for 23 years until bottling in 2013, Batch 001 consisted of around 7,000 bottles which were released in Taiwan.