BenRiach reviews

The new core range of BenRiach consists of a 10 and 12 years old, both unpeated and peated. The fun part is the fact that all four expressions are made up of different cask types. That makes it quite…

BenRiach has been known for it’s peated expressions so clearly this had to be included in the totally new core range. This was a distillate from both peated and unpeated barley and matured on a combin…

Next to the new ten years old entry level malt – christened The Original Ten – there is also a new twelve years old concocted by Rachel Barrie, the master blender at BenRiach. For this whisky she married…

Late summer 2020 BenRiach launched a new core range. Bottles and tubes got a new look, but more importantly: Rachel Barrie (my muze with Auchentoshan a few years ago, remember?) created this new ‘The…

At the end of 2020 BenRiach announced they would give the core-range a completely new look – and a new recipe. Well, I would very much like to find out more, but before I do that I wish to acclimatize…

A blind sample obtained in a trade with a fellow Canadian IG user. My first taste done blind I was then made aware of the contents, I had one more crack at it after that.This is from the 2016 single…

The blab is going to be strong with this one, feel free to skip ahead. Benriach, much like other blend fodder distilleries has a turbulent history. Opened in 1898, it was shut a few years after in the…

It is public knowledge that Bert Bruyneel has a fondness for BenRiach. For the longest time, he was a well-known collector of this Speysider. In the early days of his company Asta Morris, he even rele…

On May 4, @cricklewood visited me while I was in Ottawa and we had a small but epic tasting. We prepared sample bottles for convenience and ended up swapping what was left of the samples. This was one…

The Temporis is a peaty version of BenRiach, for which Rachel Barrie selected bourbon barrels, virgin oak, oloroso and PX sherry casks. The nose is very pleasant on all kinds of citrus fruit (oranges and…