Sold outIn short · Benrinnes (Speyside), 16 years.
“The nose brought sweet, dark enticements (Christmas cake, armagnac plum tart, salted caramel) and Hemingway's old-style, wood-panelled tapas bars (smoke, black olives,…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS
SMWS 36.205 is a single cask of Benrinnes, in the Speyside region, 16 years old, bottled at 59.1%. 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.