Benriach 18 Year Old Moscatel Finish

BenRiach 1985 26 Year Old Single Cask

A couple of weeks ago I had a little gathering at my place (well, maybe not so little). @thecyclingyogi was kind enough to bring this single cask BenRiach. Distilled from peated malt in 1985, it was poured into Cask No. 7190, which previously held Pedro Ximenez sherry. 26 years later, in July 2012, it yielded only 211 bottles. As with all BenRiach...

Score 96/100

BenRiach 10 Year Old 2008 Old Particular

An older bottling from Douglas Laing in their popular Old Particular series. BenRiach supplied the malt. Distilled in August 2008 and bottled in August 2018, so ten years old. Blood oranges, nectarines, baked pears, overripe melon and apricots. That’s the nose in a nutshell. Add the smell of cedar wood and it’s complete. Oily on the plate, quasi...

Score 83/100

BenRiach 32 Year Old 1978 for Asta Morris

Bert Bruyneel is not just an ex-Malt Maniac and ex-BenRiach collector, of course. Since a few months, he runs his own label ‘Asta Morris’ under which he has bottled quite a few gems already. The first BenRiach for Asta Morris was the 35 Year Old from 1975, which was bulls eye in every possible meaning. Let’s see what he’s bottled for us now. Damn,...

Score 93/100

BenRiach 26 Year Old 1984 Peated / Virgin American Oak Finish

I recently tasted a 22 Year Old and 32 Year Old Benriach that were finished on new, so-called virgin, American oak. This is somewhere in between with its 26 years of age, but has an added twist: it is a peated BenRiach. The bronze color could fool you into believing this was a sherry cask, but like Obi-Wan Kenobi told Luke Skywalker: ‘Do not trust...

Score 83/100