Benriach 1966 44 Year Old Private Collection Gordon & Macphail

Benriach 13 Year Old Maderensis Madeira Finish

BenRiach 13 year old Madeira Finish, known as "Maderensis Fumonsus", was the number one treat for me at our Speyside blind tasting. I guess I've learned something about BenRiach, 'cause I managed to guess the distillery and age. BenRiach has found it's way to my heart, they surely know how to make a peaty whisky versatile without losing...

Score 88/100

Benriach 12 Year Old Sherry Wood

I bought this bottle for a very reasonable price at a local retailer here in Taiwan. The salesman at the store seemed to endorse it (in an honest way). I had tried the traditional 12 yr old Benriach and I had thought it was quite good, but not great. He assured me this was a very different dram. I was interested by the combination of Oloroso and...

Score 89/100

Benriach 16 Year Old

Benriach is an absolutely wonderful independent distillery with an extensive and somewhat experimental range of whiskies. I particularly love their sherry-influenced releases, but what about their core range? I find this distillery flourishes when offering ‘finished’ whiskies, but the core range can often come off as bland or uneventful by...

Score 79/100

Benriach 18 Year Old Gaja Barolo Finish

BenRiach has three wine finished (and several other, like port and rum finished) expressions in their ‘Wood Finishes’ range. Apart from the Moscatel (which I like) and the Sauterness (which I have not yet tried), they also released this Gaja Barolo this year. The BenRiach 18 Year Old Gaja Barolo matured on bourbon casks for 15 years and was...

Score 83/100