Ben Nevis 1993 16 Year Old Sherry Butt Un Chillfiltered Signatory Un-Chillfiltered Collection

Ben Nevis Glencoe 8 Year Old

A friend told me of a camping trip several years ago in Glencoe, Scotland. He and his buddies were holed up in the only pub in town. After several rounds they noticed a dusty bottle behind the bar named "Glencoe". They asked for a round. The barkeep said, "You're not ready for Glencoe" and refused to pour any for them. While in...

Score 95/100

Ben Nevis 1991 / 23 Year Old / Sherry #2914 / Signatory

Ben Nevis is a distillery near Fort William at the foot of the mountain with the same name. It is, by the way, the highest mountain in the UK with its peak at 1344 meters. In my experience Ben Nevis can be somewhat hit & miss, so let’s see how I like this 23 year old from 1991. It was bottled by Signatory in 2015 in their well-known Cask...

Score 89/100

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