Benrinnes 1993 Connoisseurs Choice Gordon & Macphail

Benrinnes 15 Year Old

Yet another review I've lost at the last hurdle ... Grrrr! I'll try again: this is the flora and fauna version of Benrinnes. Bottle has been open a few months with four fifths left. Review is neat. Nose - quite muted. Brown bread, wisp of menthol, mild toffee, vague sourness. Taste - sweet, sour and a touch of umami. All quite vague and...

Score 77/100

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 25 Year Old 1996 Carn Mor Celebration of the Cask

Celebration of the Cask is a series by Carn Mor, the label of Morrison Scotch Whisky Distillers, in which they – as the name suggests – bottle delicious single casks that contain exclusive malts. For example, there is currently a Benrinnes in my glass that was distilled in 1996 and was allowed to rest on a sherry butt for a quarter of a century....

Score 89/100

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