{"id":1145,"date":"2013-09-24T20:08:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T01:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2013-12-03T11:26:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-03T17:26:57","slug":"benriach-and-glendronach-tasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/benriach-and-glendronach-tasting\/","title":{"rendered":"BenRiach and GlenDronach Tasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another Trinity Hall tasting (I love these events) and this time it was hosted by Alistair Walker of the BenRiach and Glendronach distilleries. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the lineup with some notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1157\" alt=\"BenRiach logo\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BenRiach-logo.gif\" width=\"260\" height=\"142\" \/>BenRiach 12 Year Old &#8211; $43<br \/>\nNotes: \u00a0This one started out great, but got bitter after a while. \u00a0Initially, I was impressed with the notes of vanilla and honey, but this proved to be short-lived.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>BenRiach 16 Year Old -$75<br \/>\nNotes: \u00a0Nice sherry influence with hazelnut and oak notes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1158\" alt=\"Glendronach Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Glendronach-Logo-300x146.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Glendronach-Logo-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Glendronach-Logo-100x48.png 100w, https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Glendronach-Logo.png 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>GlenDronach 12 Year Old &#8211; $46<br \/>\nNotes: \u00a0Much better than BenRiach 12 with more sherry influence. \u00a0Also, better than MacAllan 12 (from a recent tasting). This one spends 7 years in ex-bourbon casks, then 5-6 years in sherry casks. It&#8217;s blended from malts up to 16 years old (an artifact of the distillery closure from 96-&#8217;02), with the youngest being 12 years old. \u00a0I highly recommend this one for MacAllan 12 fans&#8230; it&#8217;s better and costs less.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>GlenDronach 14 Year Old Virgin Oak &#8211; $70<br \/>\nNotes: \u00a0Starts out in ex-bourbon casks, then finished for 18 months in American oak. Sweet and fruity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>GlenDronach 15 Year Old Revival &#8211; $80<br \/>\nNotes: \u00a0Milder nose, but really great taste. It&#8217;s aged in first-fill Oloroso Sherry casks for the entire 15 years. \u00a0Easily, the standout of the night. \u00a0I want some!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>GlenDronach 18 Year Old Allardice- $100<br \/>\nNotes: \u00a0Not as good as Revival\u2026 less dark fruit and more spice and wood.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>BenRiach 17 Year Old Solstice 2<br \/>\nNotes: \u00a0Finished in Tawny Port casks and heavily peated. Not available in USA. Spicy, hot, peaty and sweet. Very good! \u00a0I might have to search this one out on future European travels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m now a big fan of the BenRiach and Glendronach distilleries. \u00a0This was a great lineup of whisky, providing great variety and interesting (even creative) combinations of aging. \u00a0I&#8217;ve got a bottle of Glendronach 21 Year Old Single Cask Oloroso Sherry Cask (1990) that is bottled at cask strength and is non-chill filtered\u00a0at home that I can&#8217;t wait to try now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Trinity Hall tasting (I love these events) and this time it was hosted by Alistair Walker of the BenRiach and Glendronach distilleries. \u00a0Here&#8217;s the lineup with some notes: BenRiach 12 Year Old &#8211; $43 Notes: \u00a0This one started out great, but got bitter after a while. \u00a0Initially, I was impressed with the notes of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/benriach-and-glendronach-tasting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[43,116,16,18],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whiskey","tag-benriach","tag-glendronach","tag-single-malt","tag-speyside"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-it","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1222,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}