Benriach – 2013 12 Year Old PX Sherry Cask (54.8%)

A 12-year-old Benriach from a PX Sherry cask, bottled at 54.8% ABV by independent bottler Donald Hart Maltman. The distillery was founded in 1898, closed except for the maltings in 1900, and reopened in 1965 by Glenlivet Distillers Ltd. It was later owned by Seagram, then Pernod Ricard, and production resumed in 2004 after purchase by Billy Walker, Geoff Bell and Wayne Keiswetter; the distillery was sold to Brown-Forman in 2016. It opens with fine peach aroma, then spreads across the tongue like stollen with marzipan, raisins, ginger and sherry.