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SMWS 36.230: Benrinnes

“Country house complexity” · Past release, no longer on sale
Country house complexity - SMWS 36.230Sold outJun 2025
36.230

Country house complexity

SMWS regionSpeyside
Age17 years
ABV52.6%
Casknew American oak htmc hogshead & 1st fill American oak oloroso hogshead
SpiritMalt Whisky
Distillery from SMWS code 36
DistilleryBenrinnes
RegionSpeyside

In short · Benrinnes (Speyside), 17 years.

“Ready to embrace your taste for adventure?…”Extract · full tasting notes at SMWS

SMWS 36.230 is a single cask of Benrinnes, in the Speyside region, 17 years old, bottled at 52.6%, released in the Jun 2025 Outturn. Every Society bottle numbered 36.x is from Benrinnes.

How the price compares
At £92, this 17-year-old cost less than 4 of the 7 Benrinnes bottlings aged 16–17 released 2023–2026 that we hold. They ranged from £83.20 to £97.50, with a median of £97.
Shaded: their range · line: this bottleRelease prices, not adjusted for inflation

Specs, price and tasting-note extract from the SMWS. Full notes on smws.com.

About Benrinnes

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.

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