BenRiach reviews

For years, BenRiach launched a so-called 'Batch' of single cask bottlings every year. In 2018 they were already at their 15th batch and this 9-year-old appeared in it. It is a peated spirit that has…

I confess, it had been a while since I had put a release of the famous German bottler Malts of Scotland on the lips. This is a young BenRiach from 2008 who matured in a sherry barrel. After 11 years,…

Art Malts, aka my good friend Steven Ver Eecke, does it again... only 36 bottles of this 14-year-old BenRiach saw the light of day. And will you look at that color! This is from a bourbon barrel, mind…

Founded in 1992, the bottler with Italian roots Wilson & Morgan has a track record from here to... Venice? Their Barrel Selection has been available worldwide since 2000. In my glass is a malt that…

A BenRiach of a quarter of a century old, that's something I will take my time for. Liquid Treasures bottled these in their so-called 'Retro Series', with matching retro label. It is a single hogshead…

Coincidentally, the last I tasted from Belgian bottler Double-V was also a BenRiach, one that was matured in a barrel from the craft distillery Koval in Chicago. This new release spent his life on a port…

This BenRiach was bottled by the new Belgian players Double-V for an equally new Belgian player Klubb23. Funny. It matured for 7 years on a bourbon cask from Koval, that small craft distillery in Chicago…

An older bottling from Douglas Laing in their popular Old Particular series. BenRiach supplied the malt. Distilled in August 2008 and bottled in August 2018, so ten years old.Blood oranges, nectarines…

The new core range of BenRiach consists of a 10 and 12 years old, both unpeated and peated. The fun part is the fact that all four expressions are made up of different cask types. That makes it quite…

BenRiach has been known for it’s peated expressions so clearly this had to be included in the totally new core range. This was a distillate from both peated and unpeated barley and matured on a combin…