Ben Nevis 1967 45 Year Old Directors' Cut Douglas Laing

Ben Nevis 6 Year Old 2015 Adelphi

My whisky buddy Manny brought a bottle with him on his last visit. It involved a very young Ben Nevis that spent barely 6 years on a very active 1st fill oloroso sherry butt. The cask still yielded 588 bottles after 6 years, at a devilishly high ABV of 62.2%. Oh boy. Blood sausage! Or black pudding as they say. And not even a little bit. So umami,...

Score 88/100

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 Single & Single Ben Nevis 21 yo

**Nose:** Not surprising – but this one’s packed with dried fruit : plum, date, sultana, it has got it all. thick rich, sherry influence, with some winter spice, chocolate, and quite a lot of polished wood, which is nice. **Palate:** Thick and rich, and would benefit quite nicely from a few drops of water, Xmas cake, more dried fruit, and some...

Score 90/100

Ben Nevis Signatory 22yr old 1991 Sherry Butt

A lovely drop from the foot of Ben Nevis. This distillery of the same name but this is an indie bottling from Signatory. A 1991 vintage, distilled 16.08.91 and bottled 22 years later 10.04.14. A highland spirit stored in a sherry butt. Cask 2910 bottle 46 of 819. NCF. Natural colour. Light gold in appearance with some grassy and citrus fruit...

Score 89/100