Whisky Review: Benrinnes 2000 Cadenhead 20 Year

Somewhat of a letdown, but assuredly a sherry bomb.

Benrinnes 2000 Cadenhead 20 Year / 54.7%

Tasted neat

This is a single-cask from Cadenhead that was finished for about a year in an Oloroso Sherry cask, with an outturn of 336 bottles. Their tasting notes read:

Nose: rum and raisin ice cream, applewood, gingerbread
Palate: sultana loaf, nutmeg, danish pastry
Finish: cocoa, cherry menthol sweets, chocolate marshmellows

• Color: treacle (2.0) — this is the darkest, most cola whiskey I’ve ever had!
• Nose: dunnage warehouse, wet mulch, raisins, mulled wine, and grape
• Taste: banana bread, coal tar, sherry, and fennel
• Finish: cloying; sweet, cola and molasses

A heavy-handed wet finish makes this a clumsy Benrinnes, unfortunately not a great sherried or complex whisky.

Rating: 75/100