Benriach 21 Year Old Authenticus Peated Malt

Benriach 21 Year Old Authenticus Peated Malt

This one is the older brother of the 10 year old Curiositas I’ve reviewed in the past. Every year only 4800 bottles of this fine nectar are released.at 46% ABV, it’s non chill filtered, and natural colour, as we whisky geeks like! BenRiach Authenticus 21 , 46% ABV , £60 Nose: A rather peaty nose, with quite a lot of smoke, and an underlying...

Score 89/100

Benriach 21 Year Old Authenticus Peated Malt

BenRiach Authenticus 21 yo is a peated and non-chill-filtered malt. My thanks to @Nock for the reviewed sample Nose: elegant mostly sweet peat greets the nose first, then integrates very nicely with a lovely barley which shows the refinement of advanced aging. Is there wine cask influence here? Could well be some, but if so it is light and...

Score 88/100

Benriach 21 Year Old Authenticus Peated Malt

I bought a bottle of this recently. Partly because I’d tried it before and liked it, and partly because it’s been discontinued. The Benriach website says that “the Authenticus 21yo has been discontinued and has been replaced by the Authenticus 25yo.” I haven’t tried the 25 year old replacement, but I figured I grab a bottle of this wonderful stuff...

Score 85/100

Benriach 21 Year Old Authenticus Peated Malt

Authenticus represented Scotland in our Whisky World Cup and did them proud by winning, although it was close. Tasting was blind, our combined notes are below. Nose: Over-ripe grape, tropical fruit, iodine, slight sweaty. Taste: Smoky bacon, fabulously integrated peat and fruit, raw peppermint leaves. Finish: Blackcurrant, constant but faint peat,...

Score 90/100