BenRiach reviews

I opened this one up about a year and a half ago after reading some good reviews about the First Edition and I wasn't too impressed. It was decent enough, mind you. But I'm always looking for something…

Nose: medicinal peat strikes right away, but it is followed by intense sweetness from the sherry casks. Smoldering bonfires and sweet dark fruit syrup. Quite lovely.Taste: those tingling peat notes dance…

Benraich seem to be specialising in these cask finishes expressions these days, with dozens to choose from at various ages. This one comes highly recommended by Jim Murray, but that can be a mixed ble…

Birnie Moss is an intensely peated version of BenRiach, with no age statement. It is very young, around 4 years. Birnie Moss is a peat bog close to the distillery. This was one of the first releases…

QV.ID, the specialized drinks shop in Huldenberg (Belgium) went it's own way in 2009 and Koen and Ingrid have since then put their shop on the map with a great assortment of wines, beers, gin and much…

Premium Spirits is the Belgian importer of BenRiach and has a rather special bond with the distillery as I found out during a Soirée with Billy Walker in June of this year. Especially for them, this…

Earthy, rich, smooth and mild.

I'll confess, I do love a bit of Latin, I think it adds mystery probably because I can't understand a fucking word of it. Rather like that dead language there's loads going on with this whisky and some…

This Arumaticus 12yo is my first peated bottle, it has heavy peat nose. Once night I drunk and put the glass near my bed, there has a beautiful peated in my bedroom when I wake up in the morning. Then…

The reviewed sample is compliments of @Pudge72. Curiositas is 10 yo, and is in a peated styleNose: pleasant mellow fragrant peat and smoke of moderate intensity, with a little sweet lemon in the backg…