Benrinnes 16-year-old (D.2006, B.2022) Old Malt Cask / 50%/ 0.7l

The Benrinnes Distillery was founded in 1826 by Peter McKenzie. It is located in Speyside, close to the Aberlour and GlenAllachie distilleries, and is now owned by Diageo.

Benrinnes is equipped with 6 stills, which work in an unusual configuration - two so-called wash stills carry out the first distillation and feed four so-called spirit stills responsible for the second distillation. Until recently, the stills worked in a 3-3 configuration, and some of the spirit was distilled three times. The whisky presented here, distilled in March 2006, spent over 16 years in a refill hogshead cask no. HL 19599. Bottled at 50% abv and without cold filtration by Hunter Laing & Co. in the popular Old Malt Cask series in August 2022 in an edition of 344 bottles.

Nose: barley malt, caramel, vanilla, freshly baked bread, orange jam, cherries, raspberries, traces of damp wool, grass and oak.

Palate : sweet breakfast cereals, toast with homemade jam, toffee, orange peel, ginger cookies, notes of white pepper, lemongrass and oak.

Finish: quite long, with notes of breakfast cereal, vanilla, toffee, baked apples, a pinch of pepper and ginger.