Benrinnes 2011 11 Year Old, Finn Thomson Cask #308329

This cask is typical of Benrinnes distillery but when Finn Thomson sampled it for the first time in 2020 he noticed it also had a level of sweetness that he wouldn’t have expected. So, in April 2021 he made the call to embrace that rich character and re-rack this whisky into an American Oak Pedro Jimenez cask.

Benrinnes is a distillery that can hold its own even in the most active of casks. The distillery prides itself on creating a rich and savoury flavour profile that was historically created through partial triple distillation. That production method was tweaked in 2007 but the meaty house style remains.

The hope was that the PX would help that inherent sweetness along whilst not overpowering that recognisable Benrinnes character. Two years on and Finn Thomson believes the cask has hit the sweet spot of the perfect balance between distillery character and cask influence.

There is still a rich meatiness to the whisky but with an added sweetness from the sherry. Bottled at cask strength all that intensity of flavour is embraced - this is a whisky for those that want big flavours and no nonsense.

Distilled: 09/08/2011
Bottled: 10/04/2023
Cask no: 312149
Cask: American Oak, PX Finish
One of only 281 bottled produced
Natural colour and non chill filtered