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The air at the distillery helps to create the atmosphere that nurtures The Glenlivet’s whisky to maturity. It helps to grow the barley,  moves in the warehouse, swirling the slowly evaporating vapours and moving each cask along its journey. 

The atmosphere in The Glenlivet’s warehouses is laden with spirit: the aromas of maturing whisky and the vapour that has escaped from the casks. This is the Angel Share, as even angels enjoy a dram from time to time. 

Angel Share

Barley is the heart of the dram and the first source of a whisky’s flavour and character. First it is malted, to unlock its sweetness, then milled and mashed before being left behind as the wash continues its way through the distillery, imbued with the barley’s essence.  

Barley

With a cask, you don’t have whisky. Without a cooper, you don’t have casks. These artisans are key to the creation of The Glenlivet’s whisky, and a cooper set The Twelve Elements in motion more than 50 years ago, when he prepared the casks that the whisky has matured in. 

Cooper

Copper is a truly elemental part of the whisky-making process. Copper pot stills – lantern-shaped at The Glenlivet, a design created by founder George Smith himself – are used to distil the wash and create the spirit, shaping its character and flavour, and making The Glenlivet’s whisky. 

Copper

While distilleries have always been at the forefront of technology, it all falls back to an operator to bring the process together: the distiller. Little did The Glenlivet’s distiller of 50 years ago know, that the spirit he was creating was destined for one of the distillery's oldest and most exclusive whiskies. 

Distiller

The earth runs through (and under) everything in whisky making. It nourishes the barley and the oak trees that are coopered into casks; it lines the floor and maintains the cool atmosphere of The Glenlivet’s old-fashioned dunnage warehouses; and it supports the distillery itself, even as it has expanded over the centuries. 

Earth

Fire and heat are key to the making of whisky. From the malt kilns and small stills of old, warmed by burning wood and coal, to the flames used to char The Glenlivet’s casks before they are filled, fire transforms the raw ingredients into their final form: Scotch whisky.

Fire

The Glenlivet isn’t the oldest distillery in Scotland, but it does have the richest history and heritage. From its early illegal days hidden in the Glen Livet, to its emergence into legally licensed fame, there are 200 years of stories, and they continue with this exclusive release.  

Heritage

The secret ingredient, without which there is no whisky: time. It takes time to malt, mash, mill, ferment and distil, but even more so, it takes time to mature. The years allow a rough and ready spirit to grow, change and mellow, becoming whisky. With 50 years of slumbering under its belt, The Twelve Elements knows the touch of time more than most. 

Time

The starting point for every Glenlivet single malt has always been the River Livet, whose smooth waters flow by the distillery, endlessly evolving and inspiring. Without water, there is no whisky, and its presence is everywhere in a distillery, a key element in its creation. 

Water

When The Glenlivet’s spirit leaves the still, it is not yet whisky, either in law or in flavour. To make its transformation into whisky, that spirit must rest for at least three years in an oak cask, and it’s the wood that makes the whisky. After 50 years, only the two casks in which the whisky has matured will see both the beginning of that transformation and its end.

Wood

A curiously rare whisky matured for half a century.

THE TWELVE ELEMENTS by THE GLENLIVET

The starting point for every Glenlivet single malt has always been the River Livet, whose smooth waters flow by the distillery. Without water there is no whisky, and its presence is everywhere in a distillery, a key element in its creation.

Everything you need to know to get started buying and selling with The Whisky Exchange Cabinet. 

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GETTING STARTED

How to register with The Whisky Exchange Cabinet and verify your identity.

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USER REGISTRATION

How to buy and sell the exclusive bottles that are available on The Whisky Exchange Cabinet’s global marketplace.

BUYING AND SELLING

How we securely store your bottles and how to get hold of them when you want to redeem your smart contract. 

STORING AND REDEEMING

We check the details of everyone who registers with Cabinet in accordance with EU Know Your Customer anti-fraud regulations, so you can be sure that you are dealing with real people in our marketplace. 

REGISTER WITH CABINET

You can purchase either from one of our regularly released collections – bottles specially selected by our team of experts and exclusive to Cabinet – or from other users of our marketplace. 

PURCHASE YOUR BOTTLE

Once you have purchased your bottle, you can redeem the smart contract and have the bottle sent to you, or hold it in secure storage until you decide what you would like to do with it. If you’d like to sell it, you can do so through our global marketplace.

HOLD, SELL OR REDEEM

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