Benrinnes 1991 17 Year Old Speciality Drinks

Benrinnes 15 Year Old

The Benrinnes 15yo Flora & Fauna from Diageo is a very fine whisky indeed. Tripple distilled, this whisky is silky smooth, sweet and exotic. Benrinnes is a very classy whisky and takes a lot of beating. One drawback is the sulphur you may detect on the palate from the first glass. But after a while, when the level in the bottle drops the...

Score 90/100

Benrinnes 15 Year Old

This whisky is a dark reddish hue giving away its sherry cask maturation. The aroma does nothing to dissuade you from this with sherry and espresso coffee very much in evidence but with more than a faint whiff of sulphur. I should add that my scoring of this whisky has varied wildly depending how sensitive I am to that sulphur at the time. Suffice...

Score 76/100

Benrinnes 23 Year Old 1985

Benrinnes is a whisky you don’t see very often. It is one of those anonymous work horses for Diageo that produces bulk malts for blends like Johnnie Walker, J&B, Crawfords and the like. There are just a few official bottlings and this is one of them. It hit the shelves in 2009 as part of Diageo’s yearly Special Release and matured on sherry...

Score 86/100

Benrinnes Thompson Brothers 11 Year Old

I brought this bottle via ballot in feb this year for the very reasonable price of £45. In the photo it is the bottle on the right with a bird on the label (it is a capercaillie, which is a reference to the Diageo flora and fauna Benrinnes which has a capercaille on the bottle). This is my second experience with Benrinnes. the first bottle I had...

Score 85/100