BenRiach was founded in 1898 near Elgin in Speyside and is one of very few distilleries in the region producing both peated and unpeated spirit on the same site; it also runs a triple-distilled batch once a year. The house distillation is deliberately slow, taking a long heart of the run to capture esters, which is where the fruit-forward character of the spirit comes from. The Cask Edition series bottles that spirit one barrel at a time: Master Blender Rachel Barrie selects individual casks from the distillery's collection, and each is bottled at its natural strength with no chill filtration and no added colour, then hand-numbered with the cask number printed on the label. This bottling is cask 2067: peated spirit filled on 18th July 1994 into a single Oloroso puncheon, bottled in 2024 at twenty-nine years and 55.1% ABV, with no selecting partner named on the label.

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What is a BenRiach Cask Edition?

Cask Edition is BenRiach's single-cask series: each bottling is drawn from one cask chosen by Master Blender Rachel Barrie from the distillery's cask collection, then bottled at natural cask strength without chill filtration or added colour. Bottles are hand-numbered and the label carries the cask number, the vintage, the bottling year and the age. Releases are made one cask at a time and are often sold in a single market.

Is BenRiach peated or unpeated?

Both. BenRiach is one of very few Speyside distilleries that produces peated and unpeated spirit at the same site, and it also runs a triple-distilled batch once a year. That means the style of any given Cask Edition depends on the cask rather than on the distillery, and the label states it — so two BenRiach bottlings of the same age can be smoky or not smoky.

Do two BenRiach Cask Editions from the same year taste the same?

No, and the differences are large. Among the documented 1994 Cask Editions, one was aged in a Pedro Ximenez puncheon, another in an Oloroso puncheon, another in a Tokaji hogshead and another in virgin oak, with bottling strengths ranging from about 52.6% to 56.3% and outturns from 211 bottles to 656. Because each release is one cask, the vintage tells you when the spirit was made and almost nothing about how it tastes.