Rare scotch to be offered in BC
Posted November 17, 2012 12:40 pm.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) Scotch drinkers can get their hands on a rare bottle of single malt at BC Liquor Stores.
Bottles of Balvenie Fifty will be unveiled Nov. 19.
The recently bottled 50-year-old scotch whiskey from Balvenie Distillery is one of only 88 in the world and the first to be made available in Canada.
But the bottle comes with an equally rare price of $33,500.
Balvenie Fifty was distilled in 1962 and matured in a European oak sherry hogshead. The distillery describes the result this way:
The particularly long maturation has created a wonderful fragrant and floral whisky, which is velvety sweet with a beautifully balanced combination of sweet citrus notes and gentle hints of honey, spice and oak. With an ABV of 44.1 per cent, the nose is fragrant and floral with fruit and oak lusciously intermingled. The finish is velvety smooth with a delicious citrus sweetness.
