BenRiach 1994 SV The Un-Chillfiltered Collection - Heavily Peated
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | BenRiach |
| Bottler | Signatory Vintage (SV) |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | 1994 |
| Bottled Year | 2004 |
| Age | 12년 |
| Cask Type | Hogshead |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | 700 ml |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
Flavor Profile
Tasting Notes
노즈에서는 벤리악의 헤빌리 피티드 라벨답게 스페이사이드에서는 드문 피트 연기와 함께 꿀, 잘 익은 배 향이 가장 먼저 두드러진다. 호그스헤드에서 12년을 보내며 바닐라와 보리 단맛이 훈연 아래에서 발전한다. 46도의 팰럿은 균형 있게 입을 채우며 모닥불 연기와 시트러스, 가벼운 향신료가 명확하게 드러난다. 피니시는 은은한 스모크와 단맛이 적당한 길이로 이어진다. 시그나토리가 병입한 피티드 스페이사이드의 개성이 또렷하다.
AITasting Notes
Colour
white wine amber white wine straw straw white wine gold gold
air Nose
grassy and flinty, very mineral, less fruity than expected but still quite limey. Apple peelings. Gets then sweeter (ripe apples). Whiffs of cologne obvious sherry, coffee and old walnuts, dry. Orange marmalade. Gets then rather leathery and slightly vinous. Cherry stem tea. Hints of cheese (Comté). Then sweeter, Bailey’s, Alexander cocktail a mashier and grainier version of the NC2. Lager, farmyard, apple juice and fermenting hay. Nice ‘organic’ presence. Hints of pineapple drops less fruits, more leather and fresh walnuts plus a pleasant flintiness. Damp clay, marzipan a big, ultra-grassy and waxy version. Graphite oil and walnut skins the orange fizz and maybe litchi juice. I like it, it’s very ‘different’. Then more grass and hay. With water: superbly organic. A whole farm. Settles down then, on grapefruit juice and sweets whiffs of vanilla, then a lemony grassiness, not too far from the Whisky-Dorisses. Porridge. With water: not much changes. Fermenting grass, raw barley, damp grains ah, it’s a peaty version this time. Beautiful tobacco, bitter oranges, shoe polish and ‘clean’ manure. Very little Port influence so far. With water: more sweetness comes out. Raspberry jelly – nothing vulgar though ouch, this is powerful. Cardboard, vanilla, flour and wet rocks plus a little café latte. Werther’s. With water: pipe tobacco, molasses, vegetables, soy sauce, Barbour grease. Unusual
restaurant Palate
very sweet, easy fruits, lemon, apple and pear plus traces of coconut. Gets then grassier but never loses the big lemony notes. Fructose creamy, almost as fruity as the NC2 but with an added layer of leather, chocolate and liquorice (big). Bitter oranges grassy, mashy, rather bitter. Green tea, chlorophyll, ginger, green cardamom we’re close to the reduced version but the higher alcohol seems to bring a lemony tingle. Other than that, even more on green pepper very creamy, oily, thick, on meringue-topped lemon pie. With water: sweet rounded. More coconut from the barrel powerful, very lemony. Tangerines, angelica. With water: easy sweet and mildly grassy. Good but not much personality wham-bam combination of peat with fresh orange juice and lime juice. Works greatly, reminds me of a peated Signatory that was brilliant a while back. I think it was Sauternized burning! Is there peat now or is there not? Hard to say, such is this one’s hotness. Cough, cough. With water: quite some peat indeed, the rest being so much nicer than on the nose. Creamy vanilla and spices, pepper and liquorice
timer Finish
medium long, on sweetened lemon juice rather long, more vinous again. Faint dustiness, liquorice wood. Dry, pepper long, very spicy. Loads of green pepper long, peppery, grassy long, sweet, candied. Clean aftertaste on oranges medium long, on barley sugar and lemon drops same notes, perfect. Nice greenness in the aftertaste (chlorophyll chewing gums) long, peppery, gingery, leathery