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A few months back a few single cask Benromach bottlings appeared each exclusively bottled for a number of whisky retailers in the Netherlands. This one was bottled for the well reknowned Whiskysite.nl to coincide with their annual Whisky in Leiden festival.
Continue reading “Benromach 2008 Single Cask Bottling for Whiskysite.nl”
Thanks to Yoav at Whisky Gospel for the sample.
Benromach has no lack of fanboys nowadays and received a lot of attention because of their simply brilliant their 10 year old expressions. But Benromach is by no means a one trick pony and they have a range of interesting expressions, like a heavily peated version, a 5-year-old, an expression made with organic barley and a few that use experimental cask types.
We recently had our June meetup for Malt Mongers Israel (MMI). This one was held at the Yacht Club Resto-bar in Tel Aviv. The theme for the evening was whiskies that had been finished in red wine casks.
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Well I’ve been posting some old notes from all the Benromachs I’ve tried in the past, and the new notes from the Benromach Peat Smoke 2006, and now for the cherry on top, this well aged dram.
Originally reviewed on reddit: 22/07/15
I came across this one by complete chance. In case it’s not clear from the last few posts, I really love Benromach’s stuff, but there is no information on their website about this one, and it’s only available in some European markets. I was pleasantly surprised to see it, and very happy to see an age statement of 5 years so boldly slapped on a bottle. It was also quite cheap (around the 30 EUR mark when I bought it last July) so I figured I’d take a gamble and get it.
Originally reviewed on reddit: 14/08/15
Last year Benromach released a 15 year expression to add the their core range and build on the success of their highly praised 10 year old. Given how much I loved the 10 year old I had to try this one too. Thankfully Michael (who is a far more experienced blogger than I) came to the rescue and gave me a sample in exchange for some of my Benromach 5 year old (more on that in the next post).
Benromach is an interesting distillery. They put out quite a few relatively young, very good and quite affordable expressions. This has built them quite a reputation amongst whisky aficionados despite their relatively low marketing signature. Aside from their core range they have quite a few annually released oddities: some interesting wine cask expressions, an organic malt and this.
Originally reviewed on reddit: 07/07/15
This is the new version of the Benriach 10 year old, the core expression from the Gordon & MacPhail owned distillery. It’s won quite a lot of praise over the last year or so. It’s got quite a bit of everything in here, light peat, ex-bourbon casks and ex-sherry casks. It really is a fantastic example of how older is not better.
