Benriach 1976 33 Year Old Cask #3551

BenRiach 32 Year Old 1978 Tokaji Finish

This 32 Year Old BenRiach, finished on Takaji wine, is from Batch 7 of single cask releases in 2010. Tokaji is an Hungarian wine, made from grapes that suffer from noble rot. They grow on volcanic soil. The Tokaji wines are all white and sweet. This is, by the way, my first encounter with such a finish. I am curious. Indeed, the nose is sweet, but...

Score 81/100

BenRiach Benriach 11 YO Single Cask #26120 (bourbon)

On May 4, **@cricklewood** visited me while I was in Ottawa and we had a small but epic tasting. We prepared sample bottles for convenience and ended up swapping what was left of the samples. This was one of the bottles. I don’t have much information other than the sticker on the sample. This was bourbon cask #26120, distilled in 2001 and...

Score 88/100

Benriach 12 Year Old Heredotus Fumosus Pedro Ximinez Peated

Bought and opened 5/18/2013. I tasted this along side the old Benriach 10yo from the previous owners (late 90’s bottle) and the Curiositas. This came out as my least favorite of the night. Nose: Strong wine notes on the front of the nose followed by some peat and smoke. The most smoky nose of the night by far with plenty of peat. Now the smoke...

Score 81/100

BenRiach 31 Year Old 1979 Peated

There are quite a few peated BenRiach out there already. Think Curiositas or Fumosus. Or even the Solstice, for that matter. And then there are also the single casks. This is one of them, from 1979, bottled in 2011 after 31 long years. Ooh, wonderful nose. Very fruity, almost tropical, but wrapped in a smoky blanket. The peat is far from dominant,...

Score 89/100