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Benriach Cask Strength Batch #2 Peated 700ml

4 (1 Review)

Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky 60%

Original price $99.00 - Original price $99.00
Original price
$99.00
$99.00 - $99.00
Current price $99.00

 Benriach is a distillery with long-standing transatlantic connections. It was procured by Seagram in 1978, the former Canadian drinks empire, and is now in the hands of the Brown-Forman corporation, via Billy Walker who rescued it from a brief mothballing in 2002. Walker bottled some of the peated whisky that Seagram had begun producing there for its blends in 1983, and the positive reaction to these means the distillery now produces both a peated and unpeated single malt. Benriach is one of only seven distilleries in Scotland to still operate its own in-house floor maltings.

This is the second batch of peated single malt in the distillery's revised Cask Stength range.

60%

Nose: Juniper berries and stone fruit, wood-smoke and milk thistle.

Palate: Bellowing peat embers carry butterscotch and Brazil nut toffee interwoven with pine resin.

Finish: Long and intriguing with smoked apple-wood and star anise on a smouldering forest fire.

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4 (1 Review)
Simonne
2022-12-26
At 60% the alcohol burn was a bit overwhelming so watered this down to a more manageable proof, around 50%. One thing I like about cask strength whiskies is the ability to adjust them to a lower proof without bottoming out the flavour. My first thought was a definite sherry cask influence up front, but this is not a sherry bomb. Some sweet dried fruit and honey/toffee flavours. Peat comes through along with some sweet orange citrus notes, followed by oaky spiciness. It is a bit young and punchy. A reasonably priced cask strength whisky.