Malt enthusiasts were welcomed in by Ms Stella David – Group CEO for The Balvenie’s trademark bespoke sit down dinner, as she unveiled the brand identity of this innovative program. The four course dinner was paired with the 12, 15, and 18 year old variants of The Balvenie.

The program is a unique step towards felicitating craftsmen and artisans across the length and breadth of the country and will move city to city over the next few months identifying groups of crafts people who maintain a dedication to the practice and preservation of traditional crafts.  These individual’s pre-eminence in the field of craft will be celebrated at the end of this remarkable journey as they bring to life the key underlying message of The Balvenie, the world’s most hand crafted single malt Scotch whisky.

Miss Sujata Assomull Sippy, was announced as the ‘Project Lead’ of The Balvenie Guild and will be responsible for mentoring the program along with 4 other, carefully selected “Connoisseurs of Craft”(C0C) – leading personalities who will identify and mentor individual bodies of craftsmen to compete in a grand finale early next year.

The evening witnessed Marut & Anusuiya Sikka, Navin Ansal & Raseel Gujral, Bindu Vadera, Sanjeev & Shelly Batra with son Samegh Batra, Vikrum Baidyanath, Amol Vadhera, Suhel Seth, Ameeta Seth and Vibhor Sharma, Anita Bajaj, Deepak Bedi, Jaideep Sippy, Karishma Bedi, Deepshikha & Rahul Khanna, Gauri Karan, Pia Pauro, Radhika Chanana, Ayesha Grewal of The Altitude Store, designers Suneet Varma, Gaurav Gupta, Rakesh Thakore with Kevin Negli, Ranna Gill, Mayank Mansingh Kaul with Anupam Poddar, Rohit Gandhi, Varun Bahl, Harmeet Bajaj, Gautam Seth & Prateek Jain of Klove Designs, Mahesh Mathai of Blue Frog, Sam & Karishma Bedi, Arun and Amrita Thapar, Jaisal Singh, Anmol and Nayantara Sehgal amongst others.