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Benriach Curiositas Peated 10 Years Old Reviews
- Distillery
- Benriach
- Style
- Single Malt
- Release
- Unspecified
- Age
- 10 Years
- Alcohol
- 46% abv.
- Region
- Scotland, Speyside
- Bottled For
- Distillery
Curiositas uses a heavily peated malted barley as the cereal varietal to produce a unique, fresh, peated expression. This rare peated single malt, from the Heartland of Speyside, has wonderful overtones of peat reek, combined cleverly with a background of fruity, floral, heathery notes and an appealing presence of oak wood in the finish. Traditionalists believe that peated malts achieve optimum balance of peat-bittersweet and oak infusion, after 10 years of maturation.
Benriach Curiositas Peated 10 Years Old
Review by Colin
- Color
- Pale Gold
- Nose
- Malt, Caramel, Slightly metalic, Peat, Floural grassiness. More peat with water.
- Body
- Medium Sweet. Dryer with water.
- Palate
- Honey, Low alcohol notes, Caramel, Toffee, Straw or Heather. More syrupy malt with water.
- Finish
- Short and sweet. Much longer and dryer with water, with peat, malt, and sweet smoke in the end.
A lovely sweet dram which improves with water.
Benriach Curiositas Peated 10 Years Old
Review by Anonymous
- Color
- Pale ambe
- Nose
- PeaT
- Body
- Full bodied
- Palate
- Heavy peat
- Finish
- A very long finish, and strong to the end. Warm and tingly. Hot.
a Kick that you will never forget
Benriach Curiositas Peated 10 Years Old
Review by Anonymous
- Color
- gold
- Nose
- unique nose sweet and smokey?
- Body
- oily but nice
- Palate
- a real kick in the buds
- Finish
- sweet spicy
wow well impressed with this
Benriach Curiositas Peated 10 Years Old
Review by ColoradoDram
- Color
- Very light straw.
- Nose
- Light honey floral grassiness (the wet, molding kind of grass), peaty earth.
- Body
- Light.
- Palate
- Prickle and bitter and peat, oh my! This one makes no pretensions about where it's going.
- Finish
- Hot and long (even watered), especially so for a 10 year. Water improves the experience, adding length and a bit of cinnamon spice. Peat smoke dominates.
Peat and re-peat with a little bit of overly-masked sweet. I'm not so sure I enjoy a heavily peated Speyside - the smoky earth tends to dominate the floral sweetness promised by the nose. If you like the idea of a Glenlivet and Laphroaig double malt, then this is your dram.
Benriach Curiositas Peated 10 Years Old
Review by Anonymous
- Color
- wet hay
- Nose
- Honey, dirt, toffee, peat, barley
- Body
- Oily, slightly gritty,
- Palate
- Slap in the mouth of peat, floral notes, honey, iodine.
- Finish
- Looong, and goood
Wowser. Explosion of peat. Love it.