Benromach 2000 Forres Highland Games

Benromach 15 Year Old

To those of a similar vintage to me you may remember the character Man-E-faces from He Man. This whisky makes me think of him as it is such a changeable one and is so hard to pin down. Like @wierdo with the Springbank CS 12, I've gone through nearly half a bottle and it's hard feel you ever have a true picture of what it's all about. His...

Score 91/100

Benromach 1969

This is the oldest Benromach I have tried to date and of course from an era that the distillery was not yet in the hands of Gordon & Macphail (because they only took ownership in 1993). It has a wonderful color, thanks to its beauty sleep on refill sherry hogsheads. I am always very curious to whisky that was distilled before my birth. The...

Score 90/100

Benromach Traditional

Indeed... Not to be overlooked like many non-age-statement bottlings, I happen to know that the Benromach Traditional is typically a 7 Year Old, bourbon-aged whisky. The "hand selected (bourbon) oak casks" impart a good amount of subtle sweetness that I detect as a sort of light-licorice(twizzler, specifically)/vanilla on the nose. This...

Score 76/100

Benromach 10 Year Old

My grandmother's apfelstrudel was the best apfelstrudel in the world. I know it sounds ridiculous but it WAS. It was the traditional Vienna style apfelstrudel, but it was homemade, and handmade by a grandmother who actually met the Czar. I think it says a lot about her apfelstrudel… For the filling, Savta Malka used to cut the green apples, and...

Score 92/100