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Ben Nevis A Rugged Highlander 12 Year Old, PX hogshead & New American Oak HTMC Cask, 2012, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, 57.4%
Ben Nevis

Ben Nevis A Rugged Highlander 12 Year Old, PX hogshead & New American Oak HTMC Cask, 2012, Scotch Malt Whisky Society, 57.4%

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TypeSingle Malt Whisky
MRI
MRI 32
Average Score
N.A
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Description

A rich and slightly spicy whisky that makes me think of some sort of sticky toffee ginger cake, with molasses, nutmeg and spicy candied ginger topping. Sweet, rich and peppery oak - with ginger really the central theme of the dram. Ginger is a note that I think crops up fairly often with Ben Nevis, but I think this bottle does miss the hallmarks of Ben Nevis that I usually gravitate a little more towards - that sort of grubby industriality. Instead it reads far more like an aged Bourbon that's seen some sort of PX finish, with baking spices and dark fruits doing all the talking, suggesting some pretty heavy wood influence.

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Cask type
PX hogshead & New American Oak HTMC hogshead
Bottling
Independent Bottling - Scotch Malt Whisky Society
Peated
Unpeated
Single cask
No
Non-chill filtered
Yes
Cask origin
N.A
Cask no.
Marriage of a first-fill PX cask and a new American Oak HTMC hogshead
Batch
N.A
PPM
N.A
Barley
N.A
Fermentation
N.A
Master distiller (bottling)
N.A
Master distiller (distillation)
N.A
Limited edition
Yes
Bottle count
199
Has box
No
Closure
Driven Cork
Presentation
N.A
Series highlights
A Rugged Highlander
Historical context
N.A
Special release
Private members club release
Allocation
N.A
Nose
Lively baking spices and sweet biscuits to start with; ginger snaps and ground ginger, cinnamon sticks, some generous nutmeg and allspice. It noses like an aged bourbon but with a lick of dark fruit and stewed strawberry that's almost certainly Px influence.
Palate
As the nose suggested, it reads more similar to Bourbon, but with an added layer of richness. Slightly singed brown sugar, dark ginger beer and more ginger biscuits, treacle, a touch of leather polish and cherry-wood, some sweet blackberry compote.
Finish
Spicy and oaky, perhaps the least appealing facet of the dram, it goes quite dark and tannic at the end, with dark treacle and slightly burnt ginger cake.
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