Kininvie was the ‘secret distillery’ within the William Grant & Sons production site that also houses Glenfiddich and Balvenie . Although its stillhouse was separate, it used to share mash tuns and washbacks with The Balvenie. But now it has been expanded with its own dedicated equipment.
So far we’ve only seen a couple of Hazelwood -branded releases from these stills. They were only fired when extra blending whisky was required (it’s the core ingredient of Monkey Shoulder ) and there was officially never any intent to bottle Kininvie as a single malt. Until this first official bottling that was launched in Taiwan last year....
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