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i'm rafi welcome to the bothy welcome to ralphie review 928 in which i'm revisiting uh a malt
that i've had a lot of acquaintance with in the past and it's now presented in 2022
as a kind of rebranded but not too much rebranding just some superficial label rebranding
um non-chill filtered natural colored 46 single malt and it is 10 year old ben nevis
i was actually about to say glenn nevis there now this review won't take long um i've reviewed this
whisky about nine times over the last 12 years uh it pops up regularly in my radar but i have to say
that more recently i've noticed that official bottlings are rather variable in quality
and i really put this down to the owners and the policy in investment in the distillery
i'm sure those working at the distillery them
themselves are doing the best they can with the resources they're actually given and
i've always had a fun spot for ben nevis however
i tend to be going for independent bottlings
the last couple of years for reasons which will manifest themselves fairly shortly on the nose
young remarkably young it smells more like a
five or six year old i'd say a six-year-old single malt than a ten-year-old single malt
so a very understated maturation certainly the integrity of the bottling
seriously helps deliver the small to the nose and to the palate thank goodness they haven't chill
filtered or added color to it at least we can see from the color that we have got what's going on
slightly phenolic but quite fresh herbaceous
big malt notes which is the style of ben nevis and to taste it nate
oh that's young
very distinctive notes of well-rounded new make spirit
so again affirmation here that the cask has been very discreet
in its maturation i would say definitely second fill possibly third fill casks
quite possibly third fill casks so i've added a drop of water get back to the nose again
reminds me a little bit of some lightly rested tequilas
green herbaceous
a little bit of water certainly improves there's no getting away from it though the spirit itself
is really well made loads of flavor it's the spirit itself is just what ben never should be but
the casks used for the maturation of the spirit have been very light in their impact um so marks
this won't take as i said didn't take long
73 out of 100 and that is a malt mark and i would recommend this malt as a great mixer
with ginger beer or coca-cola
on the rocks in a tumbler with ice plenty of ice and um if you buy a bottle good luck
to you i'm ralphie over and out 800 ralphie review 920 extras will be along just shortly