Benrinnes 1963 36 Year Old Millennium Cadenhead's

Benrinnes 14 Year Single Cask 1998 - Master of Malt

The guys over at Master of Malt are quite accomplished independent bottlers and their range of self-titled single cask releases are supposed to be quite delightful. So I was glad to finally make acquaintance with this 14 year old sherried Speysider from Benrinnes. Distilled in 1998 it spent 14 years in a sherry butt before being bottled at 55% as...

Score 90/100

Benrinnes 32 Year Old 1988 The Maltman

The Meadowside Blending Company releases their own ranges under the labels ‘The Maltman’ and ‘The Grainman’. This 32 year old Benrinnes was distilled in the year I came of age and was bottled last year at cask strength. The sherry butt still yielded 506 bottles. Boy, will you look at that color! It’s the one but oldest Benrinnes (in maturation...

Score 88/100

Benrinnes 1997 / 19 Year Old / Signatory

At the foot of the Ben Rinnes Mountain you’ll find this distillery of the same name. Founded in 1826, completely washed away in the 1829 Great Speyside Floods and rebuilt in 1835, this is a lesser known distillery of which 95% of production goes to the blenders. Official bottlings are few and far between. Let’s try a recent release by Signatory in...

Score 84/100

Benrinnes Dun Bheagan - 14 Year Old (1994)

Being in my local pub I knew it was that time. The time to taste a new scotch. On previous visits to the pub I've tasted some Black Bottle, Glenlivet 12y and Oban 14y. The nose of the Dun Bheagan was something complety different from those ones. The nose was not shrill as the other ones but light and fruity, I'd say it has a similar nose as some...

Score 85/100