Benriach 1996 16 Year Old Single Cask Royal Mile Whiskies 70cl / 54%

A bottle of The Benriach 16 Year Old. This was distilled in 1996, matured in a single Pedro Ximenez sherry hogshead, and bottled in August 2012 exclusively for Royal Mile Whiskies.

This is bottle number 262 of 310; it was bottled from cask number 5616.

Benriach distillery was founded in 1897 by John Duff, builder of Glenlossie and Longmorn, and operated for just two years before it was hit by the Pattison Crisis, an economic downturn that shook the whisky industry at the end of the 1890s. While Benriach's maltings continued to supply Longmorn, the distillery remained silent for 65 years until new owners The Glenlivet Distillers resumed production. The first 10 Year Old was released in the 1990s by then owners Seagram, and the distillery maintains a 'peated season' every year, where peated malt is distilled, something that started in the 1980s to supply blenders and proved popular. Benriach was acquired by US drinks firm Brown-Forman in 2016.

This Benriach 1996 16 Year Old Single Cask sold at our online auction for £70