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The 2022 edition of Benromach 40 Year is bottled at an impressive 57.6% after maturing in the "finest sherry casks". For a lot of companies that would be marketing fluff, but Benromach is owned by G&M, so that statement carries a fair bit of weight... it also isn't surprising! 91.22pts Whiskybase & 92pts Whisky Fun!
700 mlAndrew's Tasting Note
Nose: soft, elegant, and chocolatey with bright fruits; nutty with milk chocolate and subtle spices to kick things off; Nutella, Ferrero Roche, and chocolate malt soft serve; citrus fruit spray, Five Alive, and grapefruit.
Palate: the palate is a little more muscular, and sherry forward; elegant, nutty, and chocolatey with decadent spice; more Nutella, Ferrero Roche, and chocolate malt soft-serve; to that we can add some milk chocolate almonds, and dark chocolate blueberries; dried dark fruits add to the dominant citrus tones (Five Alive juice box anyone?); its starts to go a little tropical; a touch dirty (earthy), soft leather and fruity tobacco.
Finish: long, elegant, sherried, and chocolate; the leather, tobacco, and spices build before fading in a delicate finale.
Comment: a lovely old Benromach, mature, and elegant but also harkening back to the lovely 18 and 21-year-old bottlings of Benromach from the mid-2000s; time has taken nothing away from this liquid, rather it has subtly built upon it.
Producer Tasting Note
Aroma: Fragrant cinnamon and ginger spices with Seville orange. Stewed red berries develop with a hint of roasted hazelnut.
Palate: Sweet Morello cherry flavours combine with baked apple and liquorice. Rich dark chocolate notes leading to fruitcake and subtle black pepper.
Finish: Full with forest fruits and mature oak.
92pts Whisky Fun
"Colour: full gold. Nose: a little unusual given that this should be ex-first fill sherry, with rather more butterscotch than expected as well as some cassata and that very insane thing you'll sometimes find in Italy, proper caramel ice-cream, this time covered with blackberry cream or liqueur. Works with guignolet/Heering too. Behind that, pipe tobacco and drier raisins, plus something that really makes me think of certain old armagnacs I've enjoyed so much lately. With water: drier, rather on old teas, including our beloved old pu-ehrs that we keep mentioning. Mouth (neat): grand. Walnuts in all their guises, as cakes, tartes, liqueurs, wines and cordials. With water: some sweetness now, fruitcake, marmalade, baklavas, kumquats (dag!) and, this time again, a tiny Campbeltownian side. Spent engine grease, you know. Finish: long, splendid. Tobacco, marmalade, sweet mustard and walnuts. Oh and 'engine grease' indeed. A classic cocoa – coffee – cigars combo in the aftertaste. Comments: I agree this whisky deserved a longer tasting note, but there, my glass is empty. Another very good sign. SGP:462 - 92 points."
$2999.99
This 40 year old 1982 vintage Strathisla was selected by members of the Urquhart family to be bottled under the Private Collection. Matured in a Refill Bourbon Barrel cask 1981, bottled at 51.3%. Only 52 bottles!
$1699.99
This is still one of the best value 40 year old whiskies on the market, bottled at 43%, after maturing primarily in Ex-Sherry casks. Canadian allocations of this whisky are getting tighter and tighter. We expect it will be a once annual release, and that the price will start going up precipitously in the years ahead... so don't tell us we didn't tell you so!
$5299.99
Bottled at 43%, this 2023 Edition, is the annual limited release of "The Macallan" matured exclusively in Sherry Oak casks.
Producer Description
"The Macallan Sherry Oak 25 Years Old forms part of our Sherry Oak Collection which features a series of single malt whiskies matured exclusively in hand-picked sherry seasoned oak casks from Jerez for richness and complexity. This special single malt delivers an intensely rich and full flavour character, citrus, dried fruits and wood smoke."
$3399.99
Bottled from a marriage of 5 sherry butts and bottled at a precariously low cask strength of 40.8%. Believed to be Bunnahabhain, the whisky scored 90pts from Whisky Fun in 2014, but in 2019 he upped his score to 91pts, which I still feel is low. This is old school tropical whisky!
Producer Description
"Matured in five sherry butts, this expression was distilled in 1968 and bottled at a cask strength of 40.8%. Port Askaig 45 Year Old is an old Islay style that is almost completely lost today. Fruit driven, with next to no smoke and with an abundance of tropical fruits such as mangoes and papayas, this is a very rare whisky and one to be savoured. "
