38 years in a barrel (bottled 2016) and 39 years on earth for me. Yes this is my birth year whiskey - 1977. The first event on the cards to celebrate my impending 40th next month was to crack this and a number of other good bottles for sharing with a group of mates who love whiskey in a friday night session. And then separate catchups for those who couldn't make it later. So I've tried this at least 4 times over the last two weeks. The bottle does the label justice - cedar wood, hint of raspberry and of course port. Finally a top notch port whisky. I'm not usually a fan but this one is excellent. Now I get a hint of the Benriach new make coming through which I'm not a huge fan of sometimes but the casks take the centre stage and deliver well. Definitely a 4.5. I'd buy it again for sure at ~ $120 - $150 USD mark but this at around $400USD was well north of that. Really this should be a 4 on that basis but hell I'll let sentiment carry the day and round up. It'll be another decade before I try a bottle of whiskey of this age, price and quality :-)
3.80
About this bottle
BenRiach, which sources its water from Burnside underground springs, has been producing whiskey since 1898. This 38 Year expression is a Speyside single malt distilled in August 1977 and bottled June 2016, at 43.1% ABV. Aged for 38 years and finished in a tawny port cask, this is the 13th batch of BenRiach's single cask bottlings. Only 237 bottles were released.
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