Kininvie is one of those Scottish distilleries whose name whispered among hard-core drinkers of Scotch as a spirit to try – if you get the chance. It is a rather obscure operation owned by William Grant & Sons, which produced mostly blended whisky on the grounds of the much larger Balvenie distillery.

It has only a couple of 23 year old bottlings to its name so far, but now word is out of a new limited release called Kininvie The First Drops which, literally, is made from the first whiskies laid down when the distillery opened a quarter of ago.