Benromach 15 Year Old is the big brother to the popular 10 annual edition, and here you get a little more sherry and a complexity that is deep as the Mariansgraven. The whiskey is made in the old Speyside style, and therefore has a bit more smoke than you would expect from this region. Along with the storage of (primarily) Sherryfade, it gives an incredibly well-made whiskey, who neither scares beginners away or disappoint the hardcore nerds.
Color: Warm copper.
Fragrance: Christmas Cake, Cocoa, Ginger Cookies and charcoal. A great pleasure!
Taste notes: Many layers of Christmas beams and Mandarin, a breath of menthol, honey and beeswax.
Serving suggestions: should be enjoyed clean, possibly. With a few drops of cool water.
Benromach is founded in 1898 and was one of the distilleries that had to close in 1983, where very little whiskey and industry were dragged. But happily, Benromach launched production in 1998, which (so far) the only thing of the many missing distilleries who turned off the boilers in the fateful year. It was the independent bottlers, Gordon & MacPhail like aroused Benromach for a living. In 1993, they bought what was left of the distillery (a few washbacks and the empty buildings) and then spent the next 5 years renovating and installing new equipment. Gordon & MacPhail is known for having huge amounts of old whiskey, which the company has purchased over the years, and they were uniquely asked to look their “floating library” through and trace themselves in the style of Benromach had before the closing . The new distillery was then designed, so it could best hit the old style, and you have even installed a malt grinder built in 1913! In particular, it was believed that a hint of smoke was extremely important. How to tasted Speyside-Whiskey in the old days, because before the 1960s malted most distilleries themselves, and here they used both coal and peat. Their standard malt peats to 10-12 ppm, but they also make a little whiskey with a significantly stronger smoke.
Benromach is the essence of a craft distillery. It is hands-on, all the way through, and probably the smallest distillery in Speyside. Only 2 men are involved in the production! There are no thermometers or pressure gauge on their pot stills – you ensure that things run as they must with “sound, touch and sight”. It’s old fashioned, but it’s great. Benromach has put the barren unreasonably high for their competitors in Speyside.
