Kininvie distillery in the Speyside town of Dufftown was founded as recently as 1990 by Willaim grant & Sons Ltd, the owners of Glenfiddich, Balvenie and the very recent Ailsa Bay distilleries.

Bottlings of Kininvie are quite rare as most of the production is reserved for Grants' blended whiskies, but an official 15y edition was released in 2006.

There have also been a couple of 'unofficial' IB vatted bottlings which were said to primarily include Kininvie single malt.

As mentioned above, Kininvie was eventually bottled as a single malt for the first time in 2006 and examples are indeed rare. If you know of any please let me know as I may be interested in acquiring some to try.

Distillery photos with kind permission by Teun van Wel

General whisky characteristics: To come