BenRiach Septendecim

Overall rating: 84.77/100
votes: 397

Category: Single Malt
Distillery: BenRiach
Bottler: Distillery Bottling
Bottling serie: Peated Malt
Stated Age: 17 years old
Casktype: Ex-Bourbon Barrels
Strength: 46.0 % Vol.
Size: 700 ml
Barcode: 5060088793701
Added on: 24 Jan 2012 12:07 pm

Average value

€ 70,33

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Whisky Reviews for BenRiach Septendecim

56 users have left a review for this whisky and scored it an average of 84.77 points

Gaija did not rate this whisky
19 May 2017 5:06 pm
This comes as a seriously great surprise, this is one of the most enjoyable "anti-Islayer" there is among the peaty contenders, and at that price, one could almost call that a hidden gem nowadays.

Nose

Oooh but this is actually really nice, surprisingly mature and integrated. It's totally on the opposite of the peat spectrum compared to Islay once again, in the sense that it's a 100% organic profile, with no mineral or industrial components. Autumn walk in a moist forrest, with bacon and smoky mushrooms (something recurrent in peated BR in my experience, and I shall not complain), cold charcoal and wet dogs. I really like this.

Taste

Nose's prolongation, altough a little less decipherable, but perfect in its own right. Very forrestian indeed, with gentle smoky leather, hot butter (the bourbon influence is not anecdotal), and soft nuts.

Finish

Same territorries, not extremely long but precise, both "organic" in its smoke and quite buttery again.
QuarterCentury did not rate this whisky
08 Feb 2012 10:30 pm

An entry in the latin(-ish) named range from Benriach, stepping up from

their 10-year-old Curiositas with a 17-year-old version of their peated

Speyside dram. They say it harks back to the older peaty styles of

Speyside whisky.
Dris scored this whisky 86 points
11 Aug 2019 10:45 pm
Nose

87 87

Taste

86 86

Finish

84 84
zaphod155 scored this whisky 84 points
11 Jul 2019 9:46 pm
An actually quite appealing Peated Malt, which undergoes a beautiful development. The good impression, however, is clouded for me by these increasingly clear bitterness.

Nose

Slightly ashy smoky note. A vague memory of baked apple, but not too sweet. Clear citrus notes. Vanilla and malt come through. Above all this hovers clearly noticeable, but not dominant smoky note. Even spicy oak notes are not missing.

Taste

Here is the smoke note to notice first. Immediately followed by a honey sweetness. In addition comes oak spiciness and for a short time a proper sharpness. The citrus flavors appear again, but also bittertöne.

Finish

A long finish that changes from sweet to spicy to bitter.
JürgenWhisky scored this whisky 83 points
10 Mar 2019 3:46 pm
Martin1965 scored this whisky 88 points
10 Feb 2019 1:47 pm
Nose

Smoke, apple, pear

Taste

Smoke, spicy, nutty

Finish

Long and spicy and a bit bitter

Can compete with Islay Whisky - more interesting malt for blind tasting
Tom na Gruagaich scored this whisky 80 points
01 Feb 2019 11:00 pm

sweet smoke, fruit, well integrated. Great nose, good aroma, slightly weaker finish. Good whisky, if not a smoke-flyer.
Totoro scored this whisky 85 points
15 Dec 2018 4:41 pm

Highly idiosyncratic nose, hard to pick apart. Some fairground candy sweetness mingling with farmy aromas, fungal mustiness, and dry, herbal smoke (in the direction of Ledaig 10), all of which is great, but there's also some wet wool and burnt plastic, i.e., aromas I'm less fond of. The off notes come and go, though: this is a real shapeshifter.

The attack is way more forgiving than the nose would have you suspect. Some real sweetness, a silky texture and no bite whatsoever. The spiciness only builds up with time, so that the impression slowly graduates from "soft" to "substantial". After the first sip, additional aromas appear: smoked (Lapsan Souchong) and fermented (Oolong) teas, together with dry, crumbling, rotting autumn leaves. After initial skepticism, this is growing on me. With subsequent sips, the taste settles into a groove somewhere between honeyed and herbal, a combination that, to my mind, always works. Fudgy caramel notes from the Bourbon casks reign in the acerbic, surprisingly young-seeming peat smoke aromas.

The finish is long, as could be expected, and remains on the sweet-and-tart seesaw, with an alcoholic zing that, interestingly, only pops up at the death. Despite the initial soft impression, this is a mouthwatering, oily, clingy liquid, and it will stay with you for quite some time. Warming, hearty fare, perfect for stormy, rainy days in the fall. Be advised though: this is one helluva unfruity, dry fellow...
WhiskyLovingPianist scored this whisky 81 points
15 Sep 2018 8:08 pm

Until a Whiskybase technical issue is resolved:

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ffmdino did not rate this whisky
05 Sep 2018 8:58 pm
No, it offers nothing to me, is too simple and the smoke is not very strong but dominant

Nose

Cheese foot !, Kuhstalll, cheese !, smoke is less

Taste

soft and silky on the palate
slightly oak, spicy, sharpness, smoke is more, later minimally caramel, the alcohol bounces something

Finish

rather short, minimal oak, smoke

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