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BENRINNES DISTILLERY Finn Thomson 12yo 55.5% abv 700ml

£89.95

BENRINNES DISTILLERY Finn Thomson 12yo Official Notes: "The sophistication and elegance of Italy meets the ruggedness of Scotland in an intense burst of flavour." Cask Story Sitting in a wine bar in Milan in November ahead of Milan Whisky Festival I found myself reaching to my bag to test one of my latest innovative cask samples. This was a single cask of Benrinnes that had spent 8 months lying in a Passito di Caluso wine cask. As I sipped the new sample I compared it to the wine itself, trying to fully understand how the intensely sweet and fruity wine has integrated with the meaty and nutty style of this Benrinnes single cask. Distillery character Benrinnes is the perfect candidate for a cask like this. Not easily overwhelmed by active casks, we get a rich combination of the raisin and date flavours of the wine alongside the savoury notes from the whisky. Cask influence Passito di Caluso is a Sweet Italian dessert wine from the Piedmont region. It has a production process that goes all the back to 500 BCE when the Ancient Greeks would pick the grapes from their September harvest and increase their sweetness by sun-drying them before fermentation. Nowadays it is a much more uncommon method but the ‘Passito’ style of wine is a hidden jewel amongst the world’s sweet wines.

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BENRINNES DISTILLERY Finn Thomson 12yo

The current site of the Benrinnes distillery is in fact its second location. The original was built in 1826 by Peter MacKenzie but was destroyed in a flood in 1829. A new site was then found by John Innes. Its most famous owner was Alexander Edward who was a partner in Craigellachie distillery, owned Aultmore, Dallas Dhu and was for a time co-owner of Oban [see Craigellachie]. The Edward family sold the distillery (which had caught fire in 1896) to John Dewar in 1922. It is now part of the Diageo stable.

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Weight 1.5 kg
Dimensions 14 × 40 × 14 cm

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