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SMWS Code 40: Balvenie
Distillery behind Society cask numbers 40.x
SMWS code 40 is Balvenie, in the Speyside region. It is an operating distillery, founded in 1892. Any Society bottling numbered 40.x (for example 40.1, 40.42) is a single cask from Balvenie.
- DistilleryBalvenie
- RegionSpeyside
- StatusOperating
- LocationMoray, Scotland
- OwnerWilliam Grant & Sons
- Founded1892
- WikidataQ805853
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The Scotch Malt Whisky Society bottles single casks under numeric codes rather than distillery names, so a label reading 40.403 means cask 403 from distillery 40. That distillery is Balvenie, in Speyside. More on Balvenie at Wikipedia.
Other Speyside distilleries: 1 Glenfarclas, 2 Glenlivet, 7 Longmorn, 8 Tamdhu, 9 Glen Grant, 12 BenRiach, 15 Glenfiddich, 18 Inchgower, 24 Macallan, 30 Glenrothes, 34 Tamnavulin, 35 Glen Moray · all Speyside codes
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Which distillery is SMWS code 40?
SMWS code 40 is Balvenie, in the Speyside region. It is an operating distillery, founded in 1892. Any Society bottling numbered 40.x (for example 40.1 or 40.42) is a single cask from Balvenie.