BenRiach 12-year-old SyT
| Category | SINGLE MALT |
| Distillery | BenRiach |
| Bottler | - |
| Bottling Series | - |
| Vintage | - |
| Bottled Year | - |
| Age | 12년 |
| Cask Type | - |
| Cask Number | - |
| Bottles Released | - |
| ABV | 46.0% |
| Volume | - |
| Label | - |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | - |
Flavor Profile
Tasting 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
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