Benrinnes 14 Year Old - Single Cask (Master of Malt) 70cl Whisky
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Single Malt
Scotland
2 Sept 1998
4 Sept 2012
6854
Sherry
Benrinnes 14 Year Old - Single Cask (Master of Malt)
We've bottled 548 bottles of this heavily sherried Benrinnes at a natural cask strength of 57.8%abv without colouring or chill-filtration so you get to taste it like it comes out of the barrel. This is a single cask bottling so once it's gone, it's gone, making it a truly limited product.
The original Benrinnes distillery was destroyed in a flood in 1829 and a new distillery had to be built a few kilometres away. Since then the distillery has been refurbished following a fire in 1896 and rebuilt in 1956.
Tasting Note by The Chaps at Master of Malt
Nose
Lychees and passion fruit are immediately present followed by roasted coffee beans and rum-soaked star fruit. Then there are notes of cloudy apple juice and wood char in a massively more-ish aroma.
Palate
85% cocoa dark chocolate and a wealth of stewing tropical fruit make themselves present at first along with a large helping of spice. When water is added burnt chocolate sponge cake and sweet sherry materialises.
Finish
The finish is ridiculously long with notes of bitter coffee and chocolate biscuits chased with clean, refreshing mint. With time burnt double-chocolate-chip cookie crumbs filter through.
Overall
This is a truly awesome whisky in every sense of the word 'awesome'. It is oily and mouth-coating with an intensity of flavour excellently conveyed through its high abv, furthermore the competing flavours are balanced with precision against one another. This is a dram for fans of heavily sherried whisky or anyone who wants to explore the delights of sherry-cask ageing.
