Benriach Curiositas 10 años Peated

Benriach Curiositas 10 Year Old Peated

This one is light in color and the tears in the glass will keep you occupied for several minutes. Nice. The nose is all about peat, iodine, paint thinner (55 ppm). Upon the second whiff it even made me think about charcoal or baked bacon (er...). Upon the third whiff I detected some flowery elements in the background. But the peat overwhelms the...

Score 74/100

Benriach Curiositas 10 Year Old Peated

I bought this bottle from Binny’s in September of 2010 after first trying a BenRiach 50mL tasting. Since then I have bought two other batches of Curiositas neither of which where as good as this one. If the L number is similar to Ardbeg then this bottle was filled in 2004. That would have made it one of the first batches of Curiositas made by...

Score 89/100

Benriach Curiositas 10 Year Old Peated

Nose: A fair bit of alcohol coming off this. Had a tough time catching particular notes off it until I'd warmed it a bit in my hand. Much of the typical Speyside fruity notes--pear is most present. The peat is, of course, there... but it is significantly different from the Islay peat I'm used to. It's sharper... like there's a pine element to it....

Score 83/100

Benriach Curiositas 10 Year Old Peated

I’ve sampled a few malts from the BenRiach range at different Whisky shows, however I’ve never actually bought a bottle for myself to drink. I thought I would change that fact when I saw a bottle of Curiositas at a fairly decent price. It’s a peated whisky, and as BenRiach have a tendency to do with a lot of their peated malts it has been...

Score 86/100