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BenRiach The Smoky Ten

Scotch Single Malt Speyside
Age
10 years
ABV
46%
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
Warm gold; natural colour with a slight amber tinge from rum cask influence, medium legs
Nose
Sweet peat smoke with boot leather undertones that mellow into saline and burnt sugar. Cream, melon, and green apple beneath the smoke. The rum cask adds a tropical sweetness to the peat
Palate
Fresh and vibrant up front with melon and crisp apple, then drying as the peat smoke builds. Baking spice on the back palate — cinnamon, nutmeg. Rum cask influence adds brown sugar and tropical fruit sweetness that wraps the smoke. Medium body with good balance between fruit, smoke, and spice
Finish
Medium finish with lingering sweet smoke, baking spice, and malt. The rum cask sweetness persists alongside gentle peat warmth. Clean and well-integrated

Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.

Maturation

The wood it came through

  • Three cask matured: bourbon barrels
  • Jamaican rum casks
  • toasted virgin oak casks

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