(WoodWinters BenRiach Online Zoom tasting, 4th November 2020) Nose: Orange, dark chocolate, sweet dark fruits, berries Palate: Cherries, chocolate, plum/raisins/sultanas, cooked apples. Sweet & fruity. Finish: Sweet coffee, chocolate/cocoa, raisins, Christmas spices Uses a range of full maturation in bourbon, port and PX/Oloroso sherry casks. Weighted towards the PX casks as evidenced by the chocolate, cherry and dried fruit notes. It has a lovely, chewy and coating mouthfeel. A little numbing, but very pleasant to sip. It's not a session whisky as such, but I could definitely drink a good few of these of an evening! Possibly my favourite of the tasting (although I can't decide between this and the CS Batch 1). It is a very well integrated dram, but the depth of the PX gives it a great chocolate cherry flavour that is a bit of a winter warmer. I was impressed at the tasting how easy it was to recognise a house style at Benriach. All of the core range and the CS are orchard fruit forward, with a well integrated vanilla.