Benriach 1976 28 Year Old Craigellachie Hotel

Benriach 25 Year Old Authenticus Peated Malt

BenRiach and I did not have a very good first meeting. A Duty Free salesman decided to off-load a 20 year onto me back when I did not know my peat from my feet. And let me tell you that was a vile drink. The oak had inflicted so much damage it was literally undrinkable. But this is not a BenRiach bash. Quite the opposite actually. After a brief...

Score 93/100

Benriach Curiositas 10 Year Old Peated

I bought this bottle in East Tennessee driving back from Nashville to Norfolk last summer. Obviously, L22 can’t be the year for Benriach. Perhaps that is the day? So the 22nd day of the 07th month of the 10 year? So this bottle would be from 2010? Just a guess really. That would make my previous review from 2005 and not 2004 like I said. All just...

Score 84/100

BenRiach 1975 33 Year Old Peated Port Cask 4450

The peated spirit was put to sleep for more than thirty years on American oak (ex-bourbon) and then transferred to a Tawny Port Pipe for a finish of 12 monhs. It’s the porto that makes the nose burst with red fruit (raspberry, strawberry, even grenadine syrup), that kinda masks the peat. Caramel and vanilla play along, opposite mild smoke and...

Score 78/100

BenRiach Heart of Speyside

BenRiach has had a troubled history ever since it opened in 1897. It was repossessed by the bank in 1899 and became a sister distillery to Longmorn. Four years later in shut down completely until 1965! Glenlivet purchased it and revived it, then it was bought by Seagram. In 2004 a consortium led by Bill Walker (former head of Burn Stewart)...

Score 85/100