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The Smoky Twelve Speyside Single Malt Scotch

Category: Speyside Single Malt Scotch

Date Tasted:
Country: Scotland
Alcohol: 46%
91 Points
Gold Medal
Exceptional
$61

Benriach
The Smoky Twelve Speyside Single Malt Scotch

Category: Speyside Single Malt Scotch

Date Tasted:
Country: Scotland
Alcohol: 46%
Gold color. Aromas and flavors of baked and slightly smoky caramel apple, peaty water used for brewing green tea, leather, cedar, and blonde tobacco, and golden date syrup with a round, crisp, dry medium body and a warming, interesting, medium-length finish conveying impressions of spiced and baked apple, sticky toffee pudding baked over a wood fire, salted caramel, and smoked honey nut loaf. Speyside orchard fruits and honeyed grain with a light smoke and rich earthy character; the aromas of walking around Scotland all bottled up.

Tasting Info

Spirits Glass Style: Spicy & Complex
Aroma Aroma: baked and slightly smoky caramel apple, peaty water used for brewing green tea, leather, cedar, and blonde tobacco, and golden date syrup
Taste Flavor: Same as aromas with impressions of spiced and baked apple, sticky toffee pudding baked over a wood fire, salted caramel, and smoked honey nut loaf
Smoothness Smoothness: Warming
Finish Finish: Normal
Enjoy Enjoy: Enjoy on its own
Bottom Line Bottom Line: Speyside orchard fruits and honeyed grain with a light smoke and rich earthy character; the aromas of walking around Scotland all bottled up.
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Speyside Single Malt Scotch

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About
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Speyside refers whisky made by the 50+ distilleries near the river Spey in the Scottish highlands. These distilleries are noted for their use of refilled, ex-Sherry casks in the maturation of their whiskies. The Sherry casks imparts telltale fruit and nut tones to the final whisky.

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Benriach The Smoky Twelve Speyside Single Malt Scotch rating was calculated by to be 91 points out of 100 on 9/19/2024. Please note that MSRP may have changed since the date of our review.