Benriach 1994 14 Year Old Cask # 105100

Benriach Curiositas 10 Year Old Peated

This one is light in color and the tears in the glass will keep you occupied for several minutes. Nice. The nose is all about peat, iodine, paint thinner (55 ppm). Upon the second whiff it even made me think about charcoal or baked bacon (er...). Upon the third whiff I detected some flowery elements in the background. But the peat overwhelms the...

Score 74/100

BenRiach 32 Year Old 1978 Tokaji Finish

This 32 Year Old BenRiach, finished on Takaji wine, is from Batch 7 of single cask releases in 2010. Tokaji is an Hungarian wine, made from grapes that suffer from noble rot. They grow on volcanic soil. The Tokaji wines are all white and sweet. This is, by the way, my first encounter with such a finish. I am curious. Indeed, the nose is sweet, but...

Score 81/100

Benriach Curiositas 10 Year Old Peated

I’ve sampled a few malts from the BenRiach range at different Whisky shows, however I’ve never actually bought a bottle for myself to drink. I thought I would change that fact when I saw a bottle of Curiositas at a fairly decent price. It’s a peated whisky, and as BenRiach have a tendency to do with a lot of their peated malts it has been given a...

Score 86/100

BenRiach 32 Year Old 1978 Virgin American Oak Finish

Today I am putting two similar BenRiach together, both with a Virgin American Oak finish, meaning they were first matured on ex-bourbon casks and then re-casked into new wood from the States. I started with a 22 Year Old from 1989 and put it head-to-head to this 32 Year Old from 1978. The first thing I notice is the 0,3% increase of ABV, which is...

Score 88/100