Benriach 17 Year Old Rioja Wood Finish

BenRiach 1984 27 Year Old Single Cask Peated Tawny Port Finish

BenRiach has a staggering number of single cask releases. This particular one is very interesting: peated malt distilled on Oct 10 1984, then matured for 27 years, first in hogshead #4050 then finished in a tawny port cask, yielding in 2012 283 bottles. This comes from their ninth batch of limited releases. It is non-coloured and...

Score 95/100

Benriach 17 Year Old Solstice 2 Peated Port Finish

I opened this one up about a year and a half ago after reading some good reviews about the First Edition and I wasn't too impressed. It was decent enough, mind you. But I'm always looking for something spectacular. Maybe that's my fault. Of late I've got into the habit of re-visiting bottles I opened up a while ago and did not really fall in love....

Score 87/100

BenRiach 1971 2011 edition

This was really the one most people were looking forward to trying, as it got raving reviews from some whisky folk (Serge at WF, for example), in addition it’s not cheap dram, so this was a great opportunity to try a few drops of glory. Nose: Very fruity with a lot of red grapefruit, Kiwi, Melon, apples and lemons, then some more exotics – lychee...

Score 93/100

BenRiach 1984/2006 21 Year Old Peated Oloroso

This is one of those combinations: peated BenRiach with a wood finish – in this case Oloroso sherry. It was put to sleep in 1984 and awakened in a bottle in June 2006 at the age of 21. The difference with the Heredotus Fumosus is that this is a single cask at cask strength. Only 658 bottles were filled. The nose starts very aggressively with...

Score 86/100