Benriach Malting Season (Second Edition) | 700ML

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Whiskey: Benriach Malting Season (Second Edition) | 700ML

Benriach’s Malting Season series celebrates the distillery’s renewed historic malting floor, using concerto barley hand malted and slowly kilned in the autumn of 2013 for this edition.

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Size: 700ML

Proof: 97.8 (48.9%ABV)

Origin: Scotland

Distillery: BenRiach

Benriach’s Malting Season series celebrates the distillery’s renewed historic malting floor, using concerto barley hand malted and slowly kilned in the autumn of 2013 for this edition. The flavour of the raw material is preserved as the distillery used first-fill bourbon casks to mature the whisky before it was bottled up at 48.9% ABV in 2022.

Benriach Malting Season (Second Edition) | 700ML Tasting Notes

Nose: Orange peel, vanilla, rich malt, almond, and barrel char.

Palate: Caramel, earthy smoke, drying spices, and citrus.

Finish: Long and delicately sweet.

Distillery Information

Founded in 1898 by John Duff, the original Benriach was short-lived; following monetary difficulties the distillery was sold to the Longmorn Distilleries Company who closed it at the turn of the twentieth century. Benriach, named for the Gaelic for ‘speckled mountain’, was one of the few distilleries with its own floor maltings, following closure they remained in use, supplying neighbouring Longmorn. The upturn in whisky’s fortunes in the 1960s saw Benriach run from 1965 onwards under new owners The Glenlivet Distillers, before Seagrams purchased the distillery in 1978. In 1985 two extra stills were added bringing the total to four. The floor maltings were in use again and remained so continuously until 1999. When Pernod Ricard took over Seagram’s whisky division in 2001 Benriach was mothballed, but in April of 2004, Benriach was sold, along with several thousand casks, for £5.4million to the South African company, Infra Trading, combining their efforts with Burn Stewart director Billy Walker. They reopened the distillery the following year and soon established the Benriach Distilling Co.