57 – BenRiach 2006 Sauternes Cask 12yr cask 1853 55.3%
Nose or pears, honey and saffron, egg tarts, pineapple, white flowers
Palate peach, pears, honey
Finish is super long with spice, vanilla egg tarts and flowers
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58 – BenRiach 2008 South African wine cask 10yr cask 7856 59% (adoro winery)
Nose for me is heavy cooked chocolate, black berry, graphite, cherry ripe and tropical fruit?!!
Palate super spicy, grass and a touch or cream, blueberry napoleons
Finish woody, coffee and grape seed
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59 – BenRiach 2005 PX cask 13yr cask 6924 56.2%
Nose is deep milky caramel coffee, Turkish delight, dates, sultanas, honey
Palate honey joy biscuits, dates, tannin, rubber and sulphur but not balanced.
Finish a bit too tannic, sulphur but some nice plums and liquorice.
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60 – BenRiach 21yr “Temporis”
Nose wood chips, plastic, dried seaweed
Palate honey and seaweed, band-aids
Finish really iodine and juicy.
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61 – BenRiach 1995 peated oloroso cask 23yr cask 7385 51.7%
Nose of BBQ ham, orange and citrus, chlorine, pine needles.
Palate duck a’la orange and smoked ham, green wood smoke and shoe polish
Finish caramel and chalky
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