Ben Nevis 1965 19 Year Old Cadenhead's

Ben Nevis 10 Year Old

I've had this bottle open a couple of months now, but haven't been hitting it hard. Preferring to finish a few other bottles I had open off first. There's about 2/3 of the bottle left. I knew as soon as I opened it, it was good. NEAT Nose - some grapefruit, porridge oats, white wine vinegar and demerara sugar. Palate - big arrival, quite...

Score 89/100

Ben Nevis 16 Year Old 1998 Old Particular

Deep in the Highlands at the foot of Britain’s highest mountain, close to Fort William, you will find this Japanese-owned distillery: Ben Nevis. Today I will try a single cask, cut to 48,8% ABV, from the stables of Douglas Laing. The spirit was distilled in May 1998 and bottled in November 2014. The nose is very sweet. Toffee, caramel and...

Score 83/100

Ben Nevis 21 Year Old ‘Past Future’

Nose: Actually not what i was thinking of when i read ‘sherry cask’. it’s not heavily sherried, more a fruity edge to it. first of all you get apples, baked apples, more like sweet apple sauce, but not only that… there’s also some poached pears, more vanilla, wood and some nutmeg / clove and a hint of sweet dough, .and also some older wood notes,...

Score 90/100

Ben Nevis 10 Year Old

Not subtle or especially complex but very enjoyable. A real bruiser of a malt with no punches pulled. Nose: Smoked malt, barley, cereals and peat. Taste: Rich malty flavours with smoke balanced by sherry sweetness. Very robust whisky full bodied. Finish: Long dryer finish in which the smoke and sherry notes linger underpinned by peat

Score 91/100