Overview
- The Balvenie premiered its 1931 Collection Tuesday in Seoul, headlined by an 88‑year‑old single malt distilled on March 5, 1931 and bottled in 2019, with only 17 bottles produced.
- Malt Master Kelsey McKechnie recounted that the cask was re‑racked into a smaller vessel late in its life to stop the wood failing and preserve the remaining spirit before she bottled it in 2019.
- Artist Daniel Arsham created a sculptural presentation that houses the hand‑blown crystal decanter, a bronze surround with eight layered references and a copper disc cut from a decommissioned Balvenie still as a certificate of authenticity.
- The 88‑year release will be offered by private allocation with no public price announced while the collection’s 12‑year will appear in selected markets including the U.S. and the 15‑year is slated for global travel retail.
- Ultra‑aged single‑cask Scotch is exceptionally rare because casks typically lose large volumes to evaporation and can fail over decades, so this survival and private release follow a growing high‑end collector market for scarce century‑scale bottlings.