Benriach 15 Year Old Tawny Port Wood Finish

Benriach Curiositas 10 Year Old Peated

The reviewed sample is compliments of @Pudge72. Curiositas is 10 yo, and is in a peated style Nose: pleasant mellow fragrant peat and smoke of moderate intensity, with a little sweet lemon in the background, and a little cereal flavour from barley. A first quality nose. Water homogenised and sweetened the nose Taste: the peat expresses on the...

Score 89/100

Benriach 12 Year Old Sherry Wood

Convergences. Gotta love 'em. In this case, great reviews, an attractive profile, and an astonishingly fair price from our local population-fleecing institution (the LCBO), converged to compel the purchase of this fine whisky. Without hyperbole, my favourite sherry matured whisky to date (or a close tie, at least, with Glenfarclas 17). Nose: very...

Score 90/100

Benriach 12 Year Old Sherry Wood

I bought this bottle for a very reasonable price at a local retailer here in Taiwan. The salesman at the store seemed to endorse it (in an honest way). I had tried the traditional 12 yr old Benriach and I had thought it was quite good, but not great. He assured me this was a very different dram. I was interested by the combination of Oloroso and...

Score 89/100

BenRiach 22 Year Old 1989 Virgin American Oak Finish

Today I am putting two similar BenRiach together, both with a Virgin American Oak finish, meaning they were first matured on ex-bourbon casks and then re-casked into new wood from the States. Let us start with this 22 Year Old from 1989 and put it head-to-head to a 32 Year Old from 1978. Ouch, one needs to approach this nose with respect. The...

Score 88/100