Benriach 1977 34 Year Old Cask #2588 Rioja Finish

BenRiach 10 Year Old 2008 Old Particular

An older bottling from Douglas Laing in their popular Old Particular series. BenRiach supplied the malt. Distilled in August 2008 and bottled in August 2018, so ten years old. Blood oranges, nectarines, baked pears, overripe melon and apricots. That’s the nose in a nutshell. Add the smell of cedar wood and it’s complete. Oily on the plate, quasi...

Score 83/100

Benriach 20 Year Old

Having already tried the ‘Heart of Speyside,’ the 12, and the 16, it’s only natural that I move on to the 20 year old. True to form, the 20 keeps the core range’s tradition of playing it safe in terms of flavour profiles. Is it bigger and better than its tasty, albeit average counterparts? Let’s see. Nose: Light fruits come first. Fresh pears and...

Score 83/100

BenRiach 18 Year Old 1995 Premium Spirits

Premium Spirits is the Belgian importer of BenRiach and has a rather special bond with the distillery as I found out during a Soirée with Billy Walker in June of this year. Especially for them, this single cask from 1995 was released. It is a Madeira hogshead at cask strength. This is my 65th BenRiach, by the way. The nose is creamy and sweet....

Score 83/100

BenRiach 26 Year Old 1984 Peated / Virgin American Oak Finish

I recently tasted a 22 Year Old and 32 Year Old Benriach that were finished on new, so-called virgin, American oak. This is somewhere in between with its 26 years of age, but has an added twist: it is a peated BenRiach. The bronze color could fool you into believing this was a sherry cask, but like Obi-Wan Kenobi told Luke Skywalker: ‘Do not trust...

Score 83/100