Wine for sale: Braes of Glenlivet

Braes of Glenlivet

The Braes of Glenlivet Distillery was built in 1973 by the Chivas Brothers group, then a subsidiary of Seagram, on an isolated and hard-to-reach site once favoured by illicit distillers. It didn’t take the name Braeval until 1994. The distillery closed in 2001, when it was acquired by Pernod Ricard, who had bought Seagram’s Scotch whisky division, and only reopened in 2008. Few bottlings from the distillery exist, even among independent bottlers.