Benrinnes 14 Year Old 1998 cask 9632 Provenance (Douglas Laing)

Benrinnes 15 Year Old

The Benrinnes 15yo Flora & Fauna from Diageo is a very fine whisky indeed. Tripple distilled, this whisky is silky smooth, sweet and exotic. Benrinnes is a very classy whisky and takes a lot of beating. One drawback is the sulphur you may detect on the palate from the first glass. But after a while, when the level in the bottle drops the...

Score 90/100

Benrinnes 15 Year Old

This whisky is a dark reddish hue giving away its sherry cask maturation. The aroma does nothing to dissuade you from this with sherry and espresso coffee very much in evidence but with more than a faint whiff of sulphur. I should add that my scoring of this whisky has varied wildly depending how sensitive I am to that sulphur at the time. Suffice...

Score 76/100

Benrinnes 17 Year Old Maltman

Benrinnes is one of the few distilleries to use worm tubs instead of the more common condensors. This makes, dixit Diageo, for a unique character. The lion’s share of the 2,5 million liters produced every year, disappears into their blends Johnnie Walker, J&B and Crawford’s. The Meadowside Blending Company from Andy Hart, was able to put their...

Score 81/100

Benrinnes 15 Year Old

Benrinnes distillery was established in 1826 and is located in Aberlour in Banffshire. A flood destroyed the distillery in 1829, and it was rebuilt in 1835. Ownership of the distillery changed a number of times until it was acquired by John Dewar & Sons in 1922. In 1974, Benrinnes changed its distillation process to a “partial triple...

Score 82/100