BenRiach 12 Year Old Sherry Matured

I've got a bottle, but I haven't opened it yet. It's since disappeared from the LCBO, so I'm glad I picked it up when I did.

@YakLord In my case, I only just saw it at the SAQ last week - had never seen it before, and it's my highly frequented SAQ - so I wonder why it disappeared from your LCBO. Odd.

Is this the release with the red label? It's listed on the Benriach website under "Wood Finish Expressions." It's not peated, but it is richly sherried. More sweet than the Revival. Very cool creaminess to it as well.

@hunggar Yep, it's the red label release.

On the label on the bottle itself it says "This distillery draws its water from the Burnside Springs and uses a lightly peated malted barley varietal as the cereal source with its own on-site floor malting".

Are you sure it's not at all peated? It'd be weird to put that on the bottle if it weren't the case for this expression.

Haven't cracked the bottle yet, so I'll get back to ya'll when I do.

Actually I was wrong to say not peated. Most Benriachs are peated only very gently unless you get into the heavily peated Latin-themed ones. This has faint smoke, but is VERY sherry forward. I'd suggest the Heredotus Fumosus if you want both peat and sherry at the fore. I remember them being roughly the same price at the SAQ, but I haven't been home in a while. But honestly I prefer the Sherry Matured. Sweet with a nice complexity and again, a beautiful creaminess.

@hunggar hence the reason I bought a bottle...very much a fan of sherry forward creaminess...Aberlour, GlenDronach, Glenfarclas, Macallan (at least the older stuff with age statements)...

@HughesDePayens - not sure why the LCBO stopped carrying it; we're down to just two BenRiach expressions in Ontario...which pales compared to what the SAQ has in stock, apparently...

@YakLord...I'm hoping to get an SAQ gift card via work and head to Quebec for a long weekend next spring/summer. If I can pull it off, at least one of the BenRiach Sherried bottles will be coming back to Ontario. :)