Ben Nevis 1992 19 Year Old Sherry Butt #2526 Signatory Un-Chillfiltered Collection

Ben Nevis 18 Year Old 1996 The Whisky Mercenary for Whisky Troef

Whisky Troef is a Belgian malt whisky club. For their most recent club bottling they asked Jürgen Vromans – aka The Whisky Mercenary – to select a cask. He offered them a lesser known malt: Ben Nevis. It is mostly known as the fingerprint malt for Long John and other blends, but not so common as a single malt. The nose is hearty and rich on...

Score 88/100

Ben Nevis 24 Year Old 1995 Sansibar

It is fair to say that Ben Nevis 1994 to 1997 is among the best stuff recently produced at this distillery – obviously in combination with good wood. Today I will try a single cask from 1995 – obviously a sherry cask – that was bottled by the German company Sansibar after 24 years of maturation, for the Swedish whisky club Slainte by Magnus...

Score 88/100

Ben Nevis 37 Year Old 1970 Adelphi

Look, the fact alone that this was distilled in 1970 is reason enough for me to give it a go. It is my year of birth after all. By now it has spent more than ten years in the bottle… which can be said of me as well (oh, Mark, please). Special about this Ben Nevis is that it’s composed with malt that was produced in pot stills as well as malt that...

Score 89/100

Ben Nevis 20 Year Old 1996 Daily Dram

Belgian importer The Nectar celebrates its 10th anniversary with the release of quite a few bottles (with a lovely label, I might add). This single cask of Ben Nevis is one of those. Won-der-ful nose on Caramella Mokatine, marmalade of Seville oranges, toffee, maraschino cherries, roasted malt, nougat and baked banana. Aniseed and cinnamon report...

Score 88/100