A heavily peated whisky from the Benriach distillery. This is at higher than average strength and was distilled from peated malt at 35ppm. The result is at once smoky and very fruity.
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Young, lots of peat. Sweet and smokey. I like the amrut peated single malt better. Old ballantruan peated malt is also a better one imo. These two have more character besides the peat. I like using this whisky to show people what peat tastes like when they ask me that :)
Great light fruity at first with a balanced smoky finish that make you have another! Definitely the right price too!
"Not what a spaysider should be doing !" - *believe *beautiful *delicate *Speyside *course *being *hot * a go
To the previous reviewer, if you are so concerned with tradition, at least spell the name of river SPEY correctly :) Anyway, there are plenty of peated Speysides, it's no less traditional than using sherry casks or American bourbon casks. I was not impressed with the first dram after cracking the bottle, thin and a bit acrid, but after a few days of oxygen it's lovely and the body has developed. Character is like a sweeter Ledaig 10 or Kilchoman Machir Bay, gently honey sweet, lively and happy, charred smoked haddock on the finish. Very nice, superb for the money, presumably because of its NAS. Really enjoying this, but if you want a smokey, rich and more sherried full-bodied BenRiach, go for the Septendecim.
I love most things BenRiach apart from when they decide to go down the peated root because I can't belive in most instances or understand for that matter why on earth you would want to peat a beutaful Delacate SPAYSIDE whisky where peat should never be even contemplated to be used in. That should be left to the more northerly distilleries where they specialise in peat monsters because I can't stand the stuff unless it's in my gardens soil which is where it's natural home is of cause and is where it should be left, to fertilise my flowers and NOT my whisky!. That been said I do like Balcones Brimstone where they actually smoke the whisky or whiskey in Balcones case and they actually use wood smoke not peat smoke and its corn whiskey not single malt whisky. I would give it ago if you are into heavily peated drams such as this !.
