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Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s


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Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 1024-813


Winning Bid
£110.00

End Date: 08 Jan 2025
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 0824-257


Winning Bid
£120.00

End Date: 16 Oct 2024
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 0224-407


Winning Bid
£130.00

End Date: 20 Mar 2024
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 1023-1038


Winning Bid
£135.00

End Date: 03 Jan 2024
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 0823-271


Winning Bid
£140.00

End Date: 18 Oct 2023
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 0922-682


Winning Bid
£165.00

End Date: 30 Nov 2022
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 0922-943


Winning Bid
£140.00

End Date: 30 Nov 2022
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 0922-944


Winning Bid
£150.00

End Date: 30 Nov 2022
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 598


Winning Bid
£140.00

End Date: 14 Sep 2022
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 245


Winning Bid
£165.00

End Date: 05 Jan 2022
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 0821-244


Winning Bid
£110.00

End Date: 20 Oct 2021
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 593


Winning Bid
£185.00

End Date: 24 Mar 2021
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 554


Winning Bid
£145.00

End Date: 02 Sep 2020
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 741


Winning Bid
£140.00

End Date: 22 Jul 2020
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 636


Winning Bid
£130.00

End Date: 02 Oct 2019
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 203


Winning Bid
£130.00

End Date: 04 Sep 2019
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 309


Winning Bid
£135.00

End Date: 07 Aug 2019
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 406


Winning Bid
£125.00

End Date: 07 Aug 2019
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 551


Winning Bid
£115.00

End Date: 06 Mar 2019
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 941


Winning Bid
£110.00

End Date: 23 Jan 2019
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 829


Winning Bid
£175.00

End Date: 03 Oct 2018
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 648


Winning Bid
£185.00

End Date: 29 Nov 2017
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 235


Winning Bid
£205.00

End Date: 04 Oct 2017
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 292


Winning Bid
£200.00

End Date: 04 Oct 2017
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 796


Winning Bid
£210.00

End Date: 06 Sep 2017
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 729


Winning Bid
£165.00

End Date: 02 Aug 2017
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 337


Winning Bid
£170.00

End Date: 04 Jan 2017
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 276


Winning Bid
£135.00

End Date: 02 Mar 2016
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 844


Winning Bid
£135.00

End Date: 06 Jan 2016
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 514


Winning Bid
£115.00

End Date: 03 Jun 2015
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 417


Winning Bid
£130.00

End Date: 17 May 2015
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 329


Winning Bid
£115.00

End Date: 04 Feb 2015
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 586


Winning Bid
£82.50

End Date: 04 Feb 2015
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 205


Winning Bid
£105.00

End Date: 05 Feb 2014
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 388


Winning Bid
£105.00

End Date: 08 Jan 2014
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 544


Winning Bid
£80.00

End Date: 13 Nov 2013
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 310


Winning Bid
£121.00

End Date: 06 Mar 2013
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s
LOT ID: 187


Winning Bid
£99.00

End Date: 21 Jun 2012

Balvenie 10 Year Old - Founders Reserve - 1980s

Balvenie 10 Year Old. Founders Reserve. Bottled 1980s. 75cl. 40%.

One of the marvellous old early ‘cognac bottle’ editions of Balvenie 10-year-old Founder’s Reserve, this would have been bottled sometime around the mid-1980s, soon after its creation by Balvenie’s legendary David Stewart. Founder’s Reserve was an early indicator of Dr. Stewart’s genius and instinctive sense of what the audience wanted - an easy-going age-statement Speyside dram combining the best qualities of bourbon and sherry casks, with nuanced fruit and sweet patisserie spices. These early editions are extraordinarily easy-drinking whiskies.

Distillery:  Balvenie

Distillery Status:  Working

Bottler: Distillery Bottling

Region: Speyside

Bottling Year: 1980s

Age: 10

Category: Single Malt

Country: Scotland

Bottle Size: 75cl / 750ml

ABV: 40%

One of Speyside’s iconic distilleries, Balvenie was founded in 1892 by William Grant & Sons of Glenfiddich, who still own and run the distillery today. Balvenie was expanded three times between 1957-71, bringing the total number of stills to eight and the distillery now has a capacity of around 7m litres per annum and makes one of the world’s best-selling single malt whiskies. 

Balvenie’s recent success is largely thanks to Master Distiller Emeritus David Stewart, who started his career at Grant’s in 1962 and pioneered the art of double maturation with the release of Balvenie Doublewood in 1993. Prestige official bottlings of Balvenie are highly sought after, particularly the long-aged 1960s and 1970s vintages and the more recent Tun 1401 and Tun 1509 series. Independent Balvenie is extremely rare, though Cadenhead’s and Dun Eideann/Signatory have released some excellent vintages in the past.

Distillery bottlings are, as the name suggests, bottled by or for the distillery from which the whisky has originated and are thus often referred to as Official Bottlings or OBs. Distillery bottlings are generally more desirable for collectors and usually fetch higher prices at auction than independent bottlings. They are officially-endorsed versions of the whisky from a particular distillery and are therefore considered the truest expression of the distillery’s character.

This ideal of the distillery character is regarded so seriously by the distilleries and brand owners that casks of whisky that are considered to vary too far from the archetype are frequently sold on to whisky brokers and independent bottlers. When this happens, it is often with the proviso that the distillery’s name is not allowed to be used when the cask is bottled for fear of diminishing or damaging the distillery’s character and status.