Ben Nevis 15 Year Old Homecoming 2009 Glenkeir Treasures

Ben Nevis 10 Year Old 2010 The Duchess

Best of Whiskies – an online shop in The Netherlands – from time to time also bottles under the banner The Duchess. You may remember the Shieldmaidens series. They have now started the so-called Game & Wildlife series in which they already put out a Glenallachie 1995 and Ardbeg 1995. Today I have a young wine-finished Ben Nevis in my glass....

Score 86/100

Ben Nevis 22 Year Old 1996 Archives ‘Fishes’

Archives is het label under which the owners of Whiskybase bottle and in 2018 and 2019 they bottled two hogsheads of Ben Nevis 1996. Hogshead #521 got a reptile on the label and was shipped to Shinanoya in Japan, hogshead #1862 got a fish and remained in Europe. I am happy to be able to put them head-to-head, ending with the 22 years old for the...

Score 88/100

Ben Nevis 5 Year Old 2015 for Loch Fyne Whiskies

Loch Fyne Whiskies is a Scottish retailer in Inveraray, that also has a shop – albeit a small one – in Cockburn Street in the capital. They regularly bottle casks exclusively for their shops. In my glass is a good example: a young Ben Nevis from a first fill oloroso cask. At cask strength, of course. Tunisian marmalade of dates, thyme, oregano,...

Score 85/100

Ben Nevis 9 Year Old Single Cask

This expression of Ben Nevis was aged by Murray McDavid in their dunnage warehouses at the now silent Coleburn Distillery. It was initially aged in a bourbon hogshead before spending 3 and a half years in a Premier-Cru (Pouillac) cask. It is bottled at 57.6%. This cask (no.1683) had an out-turn of 324 bottles and was chosen by Tyndrum Whisky, an...

Score 89/100