Benrinnes 1996 12 Year Old Managers' Choice

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 1978/1995 G&M Centenary Reserve

From Gordon&Macphail’s 1995 centennial celebrations comes our first entry for Benrinnes, a vintage release from 1978. Who on the bottling line would have thought it would take another two decades before someone finally tasted this one?? --- Description: distilled in 1978, matured for 17 years and bottled at 40.0% ABV in 1995 for G&M’s...

Score 81/100

Benrinnes Thompson Brothers 11 Year Old

I brought this bottle via ballot in feb this year for the very reasonable price of £45. In the photo it is the bottle on the right with a bird on the label (it is a capercaillie, which is a reference to the Diageo flora and fauna Benrinnes which has a capercaille on the bottle). This is my second experience with Benrinnes. the first bottle I had...

Score 85/100

Benrinnes 17 Year Old 1979 Scott’s Selection

The distillery, founded in 1826, takes her name from the Ben Rinnes, a mountain of 840 meters height. But in the Great Speyside Floods of 1829 it was washed away, so had to be rebuilt completely. The current distillery dates back to 1835. We’ll try an auldie from Scott’s Selection, that was distilled in 1979 but by now has spent more time in the...

Score 86/100