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Glenlivet Distillery Speyside
The Glenlivet Distillery has been founded by George Smith, while his son John Gordon Smith assisted and succeeded him has a long-established reputation for making subtle, elegant and flowery Malt Whisky.
This famous Speyside distillery by the glen of Livet, which flows in to the mighty river Spey, was the first licensed operation in Scotland when the legal production of whisky was first introduced in 1823.
The company remained independent until 1935, merged with Glen Grant in 1952 and was acquired by Seagram in 1977, which was eventually succeeded by the Pernod-Ricard group in 2001.
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Braes of Glenlivet distillery is now known as Braeval to avoid confusion with its big sister, Glenlivet. The whisky is designed to augment some of its parent company's blends and has never been bottled by them as a single malt.
Deep fruitiness and honey aromas develop. There is a reminder of kids’ sweets – bananas, vanilla and parma violets perhaps. The palate is big, playful and rounded with dark treacle notes and some grippy oak tannins. From a very rarely seen distillery almost exclusively used for blending. This whisky instantly takes me back to a English primary school ‘tuck shop’ on a dewy springtime morning. Fresh, bright and soft, with aromas of pear drops, foam bananas, boiled sweets, rhubarb and custard. Moreish and almost frighteningly quaff-able, this finishes with a remarkable, lingering sweetness.
Robert Whitehead, BBR Spirits Specialist
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