Benriach The Twenty One 21 Years 70cl 46°
This Single Malt has been crafted from a combination of unpeated and peated whiskies, with over 21 years of ageing in Bourbon, Sherry, new oak and Bordeaux red wine barrels. With this ageing, the smooth smoke of Benriach softens, gradually integrating with the aromas of fruit, barley and oak.
On the palate, this whisky offers an elegant smoky note of wild honey, highlighted by the influence of each type of barrel, thus forming a refined Single Malt with aromas of orchard fruit, toasted pine wood and a finish on smoked honey.
| Volume | 0.7 L |
| ABV | 46 ° |
| Type | Single malt |
| Distillery | The BenRiach |
| Country | Scotland |
| Region | Speyside |
| Age | 21 years |
| Maturation | Bourbon & Sherry |
| Peat | Lightly Peated |
| Packaging | Box |
| Reference: | 24256 |
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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