The distillery, founded in 1826, takes her name from the Ben Rinnes, a mountain of 840 meters height. But in the Great Speyside Floods of 1829 it was washed away, so had to be rebuilt completely. The…

Belgian bottler The Whisky Jury made his entrance last year with a Ben Nevis 1995. By now he has launched his third release (the second, a Caol Ila 1983, will be tasted right after this one) and behold…

I don’t believe I have every tried a peaty Ben Nevis. This 12 years old from 2006, bottled at cask strength by the Italian company Hidden Spirits, matured on a heavily peated sherry cask. Not sure what…

Andrea Ferrari (what’s in a name?) was a well-known Italian whisky blogger, but in 2013 he decided to go pro and became an independent bottler. He christened his company Hidden Spirits, which focuses on…

Archives is het label under which the owners of Whiskybase bottle and in 2018 and 2019 they bottled two hogsheads of Ben Nevis 1996. Hogshead #521 got a reptile on the label and was shipped to Shinanoya…

Archives is het label under which the owners of Whiskybase bottle and in 2018 and 2019 they bottled two hogsheads of Ben Nevis 1996. Hogshead #521 got a reptile on the label and was shipped to Shinanoya…

Look, the fact alone that this was distilled in 1970 is reason enough for me to give it a go. It is my year of birth after all. By now it has spent more than ten years in the bottle… which can be said…

Ben Nevis lies at the foot of Scotland’s highest mountain of the same name. It was founded by ‘Long John’ MacDonald, an infamous smuggler, in 1825. There are not many official releases, but all the more…

They sure like their PX octaves at WhiskyBroker. This young Craigellachie 2008 was also finished on that small type of sherry cask. I wonder how the malt fared.Well, there is not much left of the rather…

The Brackla distillery – founded by Captain William Fraser of Brackla in 1812 – can be found close to Cawdor Castle, famous from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. In 1835 it got a royal warrant from King William…