Single Malt Whisky, Scotland / Speyside

The deeply enchanting palette of flavors and aromas found on this single cask depicts every detail of the voluptuous, almost syrupy, and oily style of the single malt produced at the Benriach distillery. Intensely smoky, medicinal, camphoric and sooty, it is also peppered with fruity, floral, vanilla and softly malty oases that bring lots of energy and vitality as well as a very pleasant sensation of freshness.

TASTING NOTE

Appearance : burnished gold with copper tinges.

Nose : full, rich. On the first nose, aromas of sleet, incense paper, incense and camphor give an explicit description of the aroma palettes empyreumatic character. Allowed to breathe, notes of creosote, burnt wood, ash and smoke (cigar) accentuate this almost telluric and terpenic dimension. Then, gradually, citrus fruits (orange, mandarin), heady florals (broom, geranium, iris) and candy sugar begin to appear. Note that a sooty peat has also made itself known.

Palate : both lively and smooth. On the attack, the cigars smoke seeps deep into the taste buds. On the mid-palate, vanilla pod, wild strawberry and candied apricot highlight the ports influence. After this Lusitanian interlude, peat makes a comeback. It brings with it heaps of malted barley grain. The end of the palate then takes on the sleet and camphor notes from the first nose.

Overall : long, silky. At the start of the finish, soot spreads across the sides of the palate, as apricot stone and dark chocolate seize the center of the flavor palette. The end of the finish is spicy (clove, nutmeg) and rooty (ginger, gentian). Next, straw, salted butter caramel, quince jelly and bourbon vanilla pod flavors bring lots of smoothness to a retro-nasal olfaction that reveals chromatic shades ranging from jet black to bright blonde, via every shade of orange. The empty glass is intensely smoky, malty, milky (almond, walnut) and mentholated.