This bottling of a 23-year-old Benrinnes was produced in 2009 as a Diageo Special Release. The whisky was distilled in 1985, matured partly in ex-sherry casks and was bottled at cask strength in 2009.
The distillery at the foot of the 840 m high Ben Rinnes was founded in 1826, but destroyed by a flood as early as 1829. It was rebuilt in 1835 as Lyne of Ruthrie, but was sold in 1838 and renamed Benrinnes.
The Speyside lies in the north-east of the Highlands and is considered the centre of Scotland's whisky production. Around the towns of Elgin, Rothes, Keith and Dufftown there are more distilleries than anywhere else in Scotland, including big names such as Glenfarclas, Glenlivet, Macallan and many more.
Elegance and complexity are often cited as characteristic features of Speyside malts, but the variety of whiskies produced here is too great to speak of a single style.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
This bottling of a 23-year-old Benrinnes was produced in 2009 as a Diageo Special Release. The whisky was distilled in 1985, matured partly in ex-sherry casks and was bottled at cask strength in 2009.
The distillery at the foot of the 840 m high Ben Rinnes was founded in 1826, but destroyed by a flood as early as 1829. It was rebuilt in 1835 as Lyne of Ruthrie, but was sold in 1838 and renamed Benrinnes.
The Speyside lies in the north-east of the Highlands and is considered the centre of Scotland's whisky production. Around the towns of Elgin, Rothes, Keith and Dufftown there are more distilleries than anywhere else in Scotland, including big names such as Glenfarclas, Glenlivet, Macallan and many more.
Elegance and complexity are often cited as characteristic features of Speyside malts, but the variety of whiskies produced here is too great to speak of a single style.
Scotland and Scotch whisky is a global trend, a development that has led to a flourishing whisky scene in Scotland. There is hardly a week that goes by in which there is no news about another new distillery being built or the reopening of a distillery that has been closed for a long time.
Scotland, together with Ireland, is today considered the motherland of whisky, whose roots there go back to around 1500 AD.
