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BenRiach Malting Season First Edition

Scotch Single Malt Speyside
Age
No age statement
ABV
48.7%
Introduced
2021
Flavour Fingerprint
Malt Light Fruit Citrus Floral Herbal Spice Sweet Dark Fruit Nutty Earth Maritime Smoke / Peat

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Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.

Tasting

How it drinks

Sight
Pale gold; natural colour, bright and clean from bourbon barrel maturation, thin fast legs
Nose
Pear drops and Campino sweets with earthy barley and cut oak. Fresh and malty — the floor-malting process is evident in the raw barley character. Light vanilla and honey
Palate
Vanilla, lemon, grassy malt, toffee, and melted butter on crumpets. The floor-malted character shines through — a distinctly earthy, cereal quality not found in the standard range. Medium body with creamy bourbon barrel sweetness
Finish
Medium finish with lasting sweetness of caramel and vanilla pod. Clean and malty with gentle warmth. The floor-malted barley adds a grain-forward character that distinguishes this from the core range

Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.

Maturation

The wood it came through

  • Bourbon barrels — 23 barrels
  • distilled 2nd November 2012 from floor-malted Concerto barley

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