Benriach Malting Season Batch N°1 70cl 48.7°
The distillery is one of the last two in Speyside to have its own barley malting area: it has been part of the distillery walls since its creation by John Duff in 1898.
For much of the year, the distillery uses Scottish barley malted in Speyside. Once a year, the barley is malted by hand in Benriach, with local barley. This period is called “Malting Season”.
This Single Malt aged in Bourbon and new oak barrels was made with only barley malted in the historic area of Benriach: a slow traditional process that gives a creamy and very rich malt.
| Volume | 0.7 L |
| ABV | 48.9 ° |
| Type | Single malt |
| Distillery | The BenRiach |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
| Maturation | Bourbon |
| Peat | Non Peated |
| Characteristics | Cask Strength & Non-Chill Filtered |
| Reference: | 25213 |
The BenRiach distillery was founded in 1897 by the Grant family, right next to the Longmorn distillery, but it stopped its activity in 1900 after the whisky crisis when the Pattison entreprise collapsed.
Benriach, its wealth: stocks of sherry casks, rums wines ... impressive.
Located at the southern exit of Elgin, on the road to Rothes, in Speyside in Scotland, Benriach was also called "Longmorn II" because the two distilleries are almost Siamese. Benriach had a chaotic start.
Victim of the resounding bankruptcy of Pattisons which precipitated many distilleries in its fall, following its purchases of whisky on credit, the distillery closed after two years. Only its malting areas remained operational, notably to feed Longmorn malt. The distillation did not resume until 1965!
After an extension that brought the number of stills in 1985 from two to four, Benriach changed hands in 2001 and again in 2004. Billy Walker, a prominent personality in the world of whisky, then embarks on the adventure with two investors . The stills find the flame!
Today, it is Brown Forman who is currently the owner of this distillery.
The Benriach distillery is home to an impressive stock of old barrels. Its cellars are full of sherry butts of all kinds (oloroso, pedro ximenez ...), new oak barrels, bourbon barrels and hogsheads dating back to the 1960s, and casks containing wine, rum, Madeira, port, even rioja!
Those who sleep in the traditional cellars (dunnage) bathe in an extraordinary orange light.
The capacity of the distillery is 2.8 million liters of pure alcohol, about 900,000 bottles of Single Malt.
The versions with a name or an adjective are peated (Curiositas, Birnie Moss ...) and the accounts of ages without name or adjective are not peated (10 years, 16 years ...).
Exception: The Heart of Speyside that characterizes the essence of Speyside is unpeated.
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