Benrinnes 1973 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail

Benrinnes 17 Year Old 1979 Scott’s Selection

The distillery, founded in 1826, takes her name from the Ben Rinnes, a mountain of 840 meters height. But in the Great Speyside Floods of 1829 it was washed away, so had to be rebuilt completely. The current distillery dates back to 1835. We’ll try an auldie from Scott’s Selection, that was distilled in 1979 but by now has spent more time in the...

Score 86/100

Benrinnes Master of Malt 14 yo Single Cask

Single casks come and go, and they are oh so limited. That’s their allure on the one hand, and that’s also the downer. If a cask is good, it flies of the shelves faster than lightning (literally). That was exactly what happened with this wee 14 year old BenRinnes. I got the sample from MOM (Ta muchly!) the same day as the 2 springers I’ve written...

Score 92/100

Benrinnes 15 Year Old 2005 Single Cask Seasons

The Single Cask Seasons is a special series by Signatory Vintage. This is their ‘spring 2020’ release, a 15 years old Benrinnes that was finished on a sherry butt. It was bottled especially for the German company Kirsch Import. Pleasant nose on apples, pears, raisins and blackberries, even though the delicious fruit is immediately overpowered by...

Score 86/100

Benrinnes 25 Year Old 1996 Carn Mor Celebration of the Cask

Celebration of the Cask is a series by Carn Mor, the label of Morrison Scotch Whisky Distillers, in which they – as the name suggests – bottle delicious single casks that contain exclusive malts. For example, there is currently a Benrinnes in my glass that was distilled in 1996 and was allowed to rest on a sherry butt for a quarter of a century....

Score 89/100