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Located on the lower slopes of Speyside’s sentinel mountain, ‘The Ben’ is another of those intriguing distilleries which produces a highly individual make but which – due to its demand by blenders – has never become a front-line single malt.

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Benrinnes 15 YO Flora & Fauna

43% 6 крамы ★ 85

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Benrinnes Murray McDavid Cask Craft Benrinnes Madeira Finish

44.5% 2 крамы ★ 82

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Гісторыя

The current site of the Benrinnes distillery is in fact its second location. The original was built in 1826 by Peter MacKenzie but was destroyed in a flood in 1829. A new site was then found by John Innes.

Its most famous owner was Alexander Edward who was a partner in Craigellachie distillery, owned Aultmore, Dallas Dhu and was for a time co-owner of Oban [see Craigellachie]. The Edward family sold the distillery (which had caught fire in 1896) to John Dewar in 1922. It is now part of the Diageo stable.

Храналогія

1826 Lyne of Ruthrie distillery built at Whitehouse Farm in Aberlour by Peter MacKenzie
1829 The distillery is destroyed by a flood, but a new distillery is erected by John Innes a few miles away
1834 Innes goes bankrupt after just five years, and the business is sold to William Smith & Co
1864 William Smith & Co also go bankrupt some 30 years later; the distillery is bought by David Edward
1896 A serious fire breaks out, forcing a thorough refurbishment of the property
1922 John Dewar & Sons purchases the distillery, and it becomes part of DCL three years later
1955 Under DCL Benrinnes is completely refurbished
1966 Benrinnes’ capacity is extended from three to six stills
1974 The distillery begins a partial triple distillation process
1984 The Saladin box installed at Benrinnes to replace its floor maltings in 1964 is abandoned, leaving the distillery to purchase its malt externally
1991 Benrinnes’ first official bottling is a 15-year-old Flora and Fauna
2007 Benrinnes abandons triple distillation in favour of traditional double distillation using two wash stills and four spirit stills