Benriach 1979 31 Year Old Peated Bourbon Barrel #11195

BenRiach 1983 29 Year Old Single Cask for Kensington Wine Market

Besides their single cask limited releases, BenRiach also does a large number of customer bottlings. This one, for Kensington Wine Market in Calgary, was distilled in 1983 and matured in hogshead #298 for 29 years, yielding 233 bottles in September 2012. The colour is a bright sparkling yellow. This has a deliciously malty nose, with tropical...

Score 93/100

BenRiach 1984/2006 21 Year Old Peated Oloroso

This is one of those combinations: peated BenRiach with a wood finish – in this case Oloroso sherry. It was put to sleep in 1984 and awakened in a bottle in June 2006 at the age of 21. The difference with the Heredotus Fumosus is that this is a single cask at cask strength. Only 658 bottles were filled. The nose starts very aggressively with...

Score 86/100

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 12 Year Old Importanticus Fumosus Peated Port Finish

BenRiach brought three differented peated drams to the market in 2007: Arumaticus Fumosos (on rum), Hereodtus Fumosus (on sherry) and this Importanticus Fumosus (on port). It is, like its siblings, 12 years old and matured on ex bourbon casks before receiving an 18 month finish on port casks. The sweet fruit is definitely there, but is completely...

Score 80/100