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 | 54.6% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
진한 황금빛이 잔 안에서 윤기 있게 빛난다. 벤리악을 버진 오크 호그스헤드에서 18년 길러낸 이 단일 캐스크는 새 나무가 빚은 향이 또렷하다. 향에는 바닐라와 코코넛, 잘 익은 배의 단맛이 곱게 겹치고, 54.6도의 한 모금은 토피와 계피, 보리의 고소함으로 입안을 채운다. 버진 오크 특유의 달큰하고 매콤한 풍미가 단맛을 끌어올리며, 여운에는 바닐라와 따뜻한 향신료가 길게 남아 부드럽게 식어간다.
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