Benrinnes 1969 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail

Benrinnes 32 Year Old 1988 The Maltman

The Meadowside Blending Company releases their own ranges under the labels ‘The Maltman’ and ‘The Grainman’. This 32 year old Benrinnes was distilled in the year I came of age and was bottled last year at cask strength. The sherry butt still yielded 506 bottles. Boy, will you look at that color! It’s the one but oldest Benrinnes (in maturation...

Score 88/100

Stronachie 12 Year Old

Many moons ago, there was a distillery in the Highlands by the name of Stronachie. It was founded in the 1890s, but closed again in 1928 by the then owners, St James Export Company Ltd. Around 1950 the buildings were demolished. The label Stronachie was represented by Dewar Rattray since 1890. It was that company, now known as A.D. Rattray, that...

Score 80/100

Benrinnes 14 Year Single Cask 1998 - Master of Malt

The guys over at Master of Malt are quite accomplished independent bottlers and their range of self-titled single cask releases are supposed to be quite delightful. So I was glad to finally make acquaintance with this 14 year old sherried Speysider from Benrinnes. Distilled in 1998 it spent 14 years in a sherry butt before being bottled at 55% as...

Score 90/100

Benrinnes 1997 / 19 Year Old / Signatory

At the foot of the Ben Rinnes Mountain you’ll find this distillery of the same name. Founded in 1826, completely washed away in the 1829 Great Speyside Floods and rebuilt in 1835, this is a lesser known distillery of which 95% of production goes to the blenders. Official bottlings are few and far between. Let’s try a recent release by Signatory in...

Score 84/100