Benromach 1999 Latitude 57' Distillery Bottling

Benromach 2005 Peat Smoke

The very first distillery that my wife and I visited while we were in Speyside Scotland was Speyside's smallest distillery, Benromach. This distillery, owned by Gordon & MacPhail, was a distillery that I knew nothing about. I'd never seen a bottle in Australia, until Whisky Live Perth. We decided it would be our first distillery visit in...

Score 80/100

Benromach 2005 / Bot.2015 / Hermitage Finish

The Benromach 10 has earned it's place among many folks' cabinets, as a solid bang for your buck whisky but one with more dimensions that are used to seeing at this age. It has that rare chameleon quality, each time you have a dram it seems to have changed a bit, one day sherry focused, another more peat and malt forward. This hermitage finish is...

Score 84/100

Benromach 10 Year Old 100 Proof

This whisky is the reason I take time out from my busy schedule and inflict slow damage to my liver. Just to let my whisky colleagues know that there are treasures out there simply waiting to be discovered. I'll be honest. Benromach was not on my radar as a must-try. I was going to get there eventually but I was in no rush. But then Ralfy decided...

Score 96/100

Benromach 10 Year Old 2001 Distillery ‘Fill your own’

When visiting a distillery, one often gets the chance to fill a bottle from a cask in the visitor center. It is no different at Benromach. The sample that I am trying today was filled by Teun van Wel, Dutch whisky aficionado and self employed travel agent. Teun filled his bottle with number 62 on 28th April 2011. It came from bourbon cask 98,...

Score 86/100