BenRiach Curiositas

I have a bottle of the Curiositas open, and like it quite a bit. It's not dissimilar to the Jura Superstition, although I think I like the BenRiach better.

I see there's another peated BenRiach called Authenticus, but it's a

I tried it at Whisky Live Glasgow and found it to be...unbalanced? Almost as though it had had the peat somehow added to it at the last moment.

I found the Benromach Peat Smoke to be better, but that might just be me. Certainly the Curiositas gets very good reviews elsewhere.

Jim

The Authenticus is much, much better than the Curiositas. So it's worth to pay the bonus... I don't believe they claim to be the only peated Speysider because nowadays there are lots more. On the other hand it's the only Speysider with such an extensive range of both peated and non peated official bottlings, as they also bring out a series of finished peated Benriachs (Madeira, Sherry, Rum, Port). Other peaty Speysiders: off course Ardmore, the only one that always have been peaty. But also Ballantruan, the peaty Tomintoul, Balblair has had a peaty one, the above mentioned Benromach and I'm sure I forget some.

Alex

Uzytkownik napisal:

I don't know, I haven't had the Benromach Peat Smoke, but that's probably because everything that I have had from that distillery was extremely disappointing.

Absolutely. The 21yo Authenticus is a lovely malt, well worth the extra penny.

Confirm. There are a lot of peated Speysiders. Also, where do you draw the line between *peated* and *unpeated*? Would Mortlach 16yo OB be peated or unpeated? There definitely is peat in it. Same goes for Glenfarclas, Aberlour and many more. But yes, Ardmore is unmistakeably peaty. And lovely too.

Cheers, Rajmund