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Age: 15 Year Old
Alcohol ABV: 46%
Bottle Size: 70cl
Description: Tawny Port Finish
Distillery: BenRiach
Region: Speyside
Vintage: -
Year Bottled: -
The BenRiach 15 Year Old Tawny Port is matured in the traditional style in American oak bourbon casks and is then ‘finished’ in aged Tawny Port hogsheads, sourced from the Douro region in the north of Portugal.
Finishing means that whisky is transferred from one cask type to another for the final period of its maturation.
The purpose of finishing is to allow the new cask to add another layer of flavour to the spirit.
In this case the Port hogshead provides a delightful mix of butterscotch, peaches and sultanas and a beautiful layered, intense sweetness to the malt.
Nose: Aromatic, port wood notes firstly present themselves as they then develop into a phenolic element, a little bitumen perhaps.
Palate: Sweet and firm, grape and oily smoke, sweetness develops but predominantly grapey.
Finish: Oak, smoke and a touch more phenol.
