Benrinnes 21 Year Old Single Malt Scotch Whisky, 700ml
An uncompromising, robust beast, this Single Malt was matured in ex-bodega European oak casks. A heart-warming dram: robust, big-bodied and bluff. Intriguing, rewarding and compelling; a grown-up malt that is all about flavour, with mere suggestions of truffle oil or ginger cake on a quiet nose followed by wonderfully appetising, spicy and bittersweet tastes on the palate. Distilled in 1992, just 2,892 bottles of this treasured liquid are available globally.
Lengthy, chewy and warming, with a menthol effect, a hint of flint, then burnt currants on Christmas cake or dried orange peel. There are notes of almond in the beautifully aromatic aftertaste and there’s a very late, charred astringency with a faded trace of smoke.
Hints of truffle oil soon settle down to fruit-cake. With time, sweetness emerges as dark treacle toffee – then grows richer, finally giving way to newly burnt toast and embers from a wood fire.
Big, smooth-textured and mouth-filling, with a sweet and spicy nature. The first sip cools, then the taste catches fire! Briefly salty, savoury, then toffee sweetness leads to baked pastry.