Benrinnes 12 años 1999 Signatory

Benrinnes 1978/1995 G&M Centenary Reserve

From Gordon&Macphail’s 1995 centennial celebrations comes our first entry for Benrinnes, a vintage release from 1978. Who on the bottling line would have thought it would take another two decades before someone finally tasted this one?? --- Description: distilled in 1978, matured for 17 years and bottled at 40.0% ABV in 1995 for...

Score 81/100

Benrinnes 1979 Old Malt Cask

Before I get to the tasting notes, a few notes about the bottle itself. This was a red tagged sale bottle. The seller had bought it from another liquor store that was going out of business. It had been marked down to around half the original price. Distilled in March of 1979, bottled in August 2000. So this has been in various states of storage...

Score 83/100

Benrinnes 15 Year Old

The Benrinnes 15yo Flora & Fauna from Diageo is a very fine whisky indeed. Tripple distilled, this whisky is silky smooth, sweet and exotic. Benrinnes is a very classy whisky and takes a lot of beating. One drawback is the sulphur you may detect on the palate from the first glass. But after a while, when the level in the bottle drops the...

Score 90/100

Stronachie 12 Year Old

Many moons ago, there was a distillery in the Highlands by the name of Stronachie. It was founded in the 1890s, but closed again in 1928 by the then owners, St James Export Company Ltd. Around 1950 the buildings were demolished. The label Stronachie was represented by Dewar Rattray since 1890. It was that company, now known as A.D. Rattray, that...

Score 80/100