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    • benriach curiositas peated 10 years old

    Benriach Curiositas Peated 10 Years Old 87
    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.

    review by coloradodram

    82
    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.

    review by anonymous

    88
    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

    review by anonymous

    96
    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

    review by colin

    83
    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.