Sold outIn short · Benrinnes (Speyside), 13 years.
“The aroma neat felt like being served the perfect Bircher muesli, prepared the night before, with oats, chai and pumpkin seeds, almonds, maple syrup, vanilla and lemon…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 36.174 is a single cask of Benrinnes, in the Speyside region, 13 years old, bottled at 58.4%. Every Society bottle numbered 36.x is from Benrinnes.
Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.
On the lower slopes of Ben Rinnes, above Aberlour, Benrinnes was founded in 1826, washed away by a flood three years later and rebuilt in a farmhouse's outbuildings. From 1974 to 2007 it ran a singular partial triple distillation, and its stills still condense in worm tubs, which leave the spirit heavy, meaty and faintly sulphurous, a thoroughly old-fashioned Speysider that blenders treasure. Diageo's.