BALLANTINE’S GOLD SEAL 
12 YEARS OLD
This blend offers a smoother, rounder and more mature taste with a lasting depth of flavour. 
It is equivalent to drinking a first growth wine and the label signifies that it comprises only the best
whiskies which have each matured in oak casks for at least 12 years.


BALLANTINE’S 17 YEARS OLD 

This fulsome, mature, vintage whisky is in a class of its own and savoured by connoisseurs the world over.
Perfect for after dinner or as a special occasion drink. 

The founder of George Ballantine & Son Ltd., came from a farming family in the
Scottish Borders. He went to Edinburgh in 1827 and established a grocers shop
in the Cowgate, eventually extending his business interests to wines and spirits. By
1867 the company had moved into prestigious offices on the more fashionable
Princes Street. 

The founders son, also named George, set up in Argyll Street, Glasgow, in 1872
as a whisky, wine and cigar merchant, with many export interests, especially the
promotion of their Old Glenlivet and Talisker Fine Malt brands. 

Royal Warrant
In 1903 the family business was granted a Royal Warrant and was recorded as
"transacting an immense trade in supplying wines and spirits to families of
distinction all over Scotland and in many parts of England and Ireland." 
In the 1920s the Ballantine family sold the firm to the junior partners,james Barclay and 
PA. McKinlaywho formed a limited Company under the Ballantine's name and went on to 
concentrate on marketing the brand abroad, particularly in the USA.
Throughout Prohibition (1920-33) james Barclay's efforts to obtain distribution
in the United States were tireless, and not without danger, but by the mid- 
1930’s he had the best distribution network of any brand on the East Coast. 

New grain distillery
Increasingly large resources were required to compete in the growing world market, and these were
provided by Hiram Walker Gooderham & Worts, the major Canadian distillers,
which acquired Ballantine's in 1937.The new company's first task was to secure
fillings, to which end Miltonduff and Glenburgie Distilleries were purchased, and a
massive new grain distillery - the largest in Europe - built at Dumbarton. 

During the 1960s the company turned to Europe - at that time an unexplored
market for Scotch - and by 1965 had secured such a strong foothold there that it
resolved to gear the home trade to supporting the overseas business. Ballantine's Finest is the number
one brand in Europe and the third largest in the world. The company's de luxe lends, including a 30
year old, have established a strong following in the Far East. 

Produced by Allied Domecq's Scotch whisky company, Allied Distiller's
Limited, Ballantine's is Allied Domecq's most important brand asset. It is the
No.1 Scotch brand in Europe and No.2 in global Duty Free. The Ballantine's
family of brands includes aged variants spanning from 12 to 30 years old.
Ballantine's is the leading super-premium scotch in the world.


Consumers around the world spend more than £5 million every day on Allied Domecq's Scotch Whisky brands.
During an evening they will spend over £0.75 million.
Source - Variety

All fired up 
Ballantine's is hitting new highs with its partnership with incendiary dance act
The Prodigy. 

The rest of 1997 and into 1998 will see Ballantine's working with the world's
number one dance act - The Prodigy to bring their inspiring live shows to
audiences around the world. 

Riding high on the success of their third album - The Fat of the Land - The
Prodigy, in association with Ballantine's, are currently playing live to
audiences throughout Europe, Asia & Australasia. 

Kicking off the shows will be a short film - 14 Days on a Ballantine's Urban
High - a surreal and highly stylised production which, with its dance music
soundtrack, perfectly captures the spirits of the events and the feel of the
Ballantine's brand. 

We will be working with The Prodigy for a further 10 dates this year, the
majority of which, if not all, will be in Europe - there is a possibility of the band
performing at the forthcoming Urban High's also, but none of these have been
confirmed.


Selling site : http://spotted.owl.net/OWLspace/spirits/
BALLANTINE'S BLENDED SCOTCH WHISKY - marries over 40 different single malts to create the smooth, well-rounded
taste of this premium blend. Ballantine's Finest is the #1-selling blended Scotch in Europe. 

5852     Ballantine's Finest			$42       
5543     Ballantine's Gold Seal 12 Years Old	$54       
5544     Ballantine's 17 Years Old		$176      
5545     Ballantine's 30 Years Old		$548


Swedish systembolaget.:
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Ballantine's
Storbritannien (SKOTSK BLENDED WHISKY)	249.00	700cls.

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Ballantine's
Storbritannien (SKOTSK BLENDED WHISKY)
130.00