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BenRiach 1977 38 Year Cask# 3111
Single Malt — Speyside, Scotland
Reviewed
November 20, 2017 (edited November 21, 2017)
38 years in a barrel (bottled 2016) and 39 years on earth for me. Yes this is my birth year whiskey - 1977. The first event on the cards to celebrate my impending 40th next month was to crack this and a number of other good bottles for sharing with a group of mates who love whiskey in a friday night session. And then separate catchups for those who couldn't make it later. So I've tried this at least 4 times over the last two weeks. The bottle does the label justice - cedar wood, hint of raspberry and of course port. Finally a top notch port whisky. I'm not usually a fan but this one is excellent. Now I get a hint of the Benriach new make coming through which I'm not a huge fan of sometimes but the casks take the centre stage and deliver well. Definitely a 4.5. I'd buy it again for sure at ~ $120 - $150 USD mark but this at around $400USD was well north of that. Really this should be a 4 on that basis but hell I'll let sentiment carry the day and round up. It'll be another decade before I try a bottle of whiskey of this age, price and quality :-)
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Thanks guys :-). Happy birthday GP for last month and yes Cascode the longer I wait the more expensive it gets - I've bought my 50th whiskey already...didn't want to sort birthdays to far ahead though and tempt fate... :-)
Nice review and happy birthday!
Sounds like one hell of a celebration. I wanted to have something special on my 35th about a month ago, but my schedule simply wouldn’t allow it.
This is the way to celebrate! Nice review
Happy birthday! That's the way to celebrate :-) I shudder to think how much my birth-year whisky would cost.