Single-estate sugarcane grown without pesticides is pressed through a water-wheel powered mill within four hours of being hand-cut

Matured in a combination of Bourbon seasoned American Oak barrels and Oloroso Sherry seasoned Spanish oak butts

and bay laurel

Distilled two times

This together with wood maturation

Rapa Giovanni Ratafia di Andorno Liquore di Ciliegie The Balvenie Single-estate sugarcane grown without pesticidesRapa Giovanni Liquore di Ciliegie is the bottle that started a legend the original Ratafi di Andorno black cherry liqueur that according to an 1848 account by author Angelo Brofferio once saved the town of Andorno from the plague in the year 1000, bringing peace to the region when the liqueur maker's daughter married the son of his bitter enemy, sealing their union with a toast of Ratafi a word derived from Latin meaning "to ratify." That's the kind