BenRiach 1996 Single Cask Bottling
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | BenRiach |
| Bottler | Distillery Bottling |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1996 |
| Bottled Year | 2013 |
| Age | 18년 |
| Cask Type | Virgin Oak Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 54.4% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
잔을 흔들면 버진 오크 호그스헤드에서 18년을 거친 벤리악 1996의 짙은 호박빛이 잔 안쪽을 미끄러진다. 잔을 코끝에 가져가면 새 오크의 바닐라와 코코넛, 잘 익은 사과의 향이 차례로 인사한다. 한 모금을 머금으면 54.4%의 도수가 입안에서 풍부한 바닐라와 메이플, 옅은 시나몬의 결로 풀려나간다. 삼킨 뒤에도 버진 오크가 남긴 달콤한 우드 잔향이 입천장에 오래 따라온다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
dark amber
air Nose
cigars and peonies, then blood oranges and earth. It’s not too raisiny, great news. Notes of very old Port, and Banyuls. That’s the PX speaking out. With water: wonderful earth, damp old barrels forgotten in a corner, soy sauce, lovage, ‘wild’ cigars… This is perfect
restaurant Palate
very rich, thick, sweet, right between pure PX and malt whisky. Plenty of liqueur-filled milk chocolate, raisins, Sauternes, then roasted nuts of various sorts and just a touch of bitter orange and green tobacco. Very sweet, but very excellent. With water: hurray, the herbs come out. Grapefruit skin, grass, white currants, bitter oranges… There’s a lovely sour bitterness as well
timer Finish
long, with more ‘green’ oak. That really gives it a grassy sour bitterness, but I’m not against this style