Benromach 2000 Single Cask
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | Benromach |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | Single Cask |
| Vintage | 2000 |
| Bottled Year | 2012 |
| Age | - |
| Cask Type | 1st Fill Bourbon Cask |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
Colour
gold
air Nose
starts quite fruity, buttery and quite oaky (notes of toasted bread). Beautiful notes of very ripe peaches, acacia honey… The sherry is quite discreet but it does make the whole a little more complex. Goes on with notes of caramel crème and crème brûlée, and very faint notes of cardboard, and finally more fruits again (strawberries). With water: huge soapiness, which often happens when you add water. Let’s wait… After three or four minutes: gets sort of purer, more on nougat and oak as well a a little grenadine good, easy, very pleasant even if probably not exactly mind-boggling. Notes of apple pie and ‘light’ tar as well as ripe gooseberries. Rather compact and ‘easy’ very punchy of course, quite fruity (apples and pears as often) and very spirity. Hard to enjoy when diluted, so let’s add a little water. It’s more the wood that comes out now but it’s a rather nice one. Also a little mint and liquorice sticks. Also somewhat fizzy (Fanta). Quite nice actually but lacks a little character beyond the spirit
restaurant Palate
more sherry and more fruit (kirsch, plum spirit). Punchy and quite hot. Also a little malty, with a peppery woodiness in the background. It needs more water than in the nose. With water: gets more vegetal, grassy, discreetly bitter. Black tea sweet, starting on plums, with lots of smokiness. Maybe a tad more brutal than on the nose very powerful, raw, fruity and sugary but that’s almost only the high alcohol. With water: it got frankly better now, with very pleasant orangey notes (both crystallized and fresh) and a little pepper and cloves
timer Finish
rather long, malty and oaky, with notes of caramel sauce and toasted bread again. Very good but no extraordinary malt in the sense that it hasn’t got truly specific character, but the whole is pleasant. The profile isn’t too far from the OB’s, only better. Works better with water on the palate. 85 points . July 8, 2007 TASTING – TWO BENROMACHS Benromach 2000/2007 ‘Peat Smoke’ (46%, OB) Soon all Scottish distilleries will bring peated variations of their output to the market, or so it seems! I must say some of those have been very good in the past… Only one question remains, to change names or not? Anyway, let’s try this new Benromach more on fruits tan on peat now. In a whole, it’s rather a success I’d say. Simple but pleasant and very drinkable. What more could anyone want! 82 points . Benromach 1978/1993 (60.6%, Scotch Single Malt Circle, cask #2985) Colour; straw quite long, orangey, spicier now (a lot of pepper). A gentle fruity brute. 80 points . MUSIC – Recommended listening: it's Sunday, let's go classical and pay tribute to the fantastic French soprano Regine Crespin who passed away last week. How fabulous she was... As somebody wrote, 'the rest is noise'... July 7, 2007 TASTING – TWO MACALLANS Macallan 12yo ‘Diego’s Experiment’ (40%, Private Finishing, 2007) Our friend singer Diego made some Fragolino white wine a while ago and decided to let some Macallan 1992 Elegancia further mature for 18 months in the small oak cask he had used. Let’s try the result now…
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