Benrinnes 12 Year Old 2011 Brave New Spirits Whisky of Voodoo Black Cat Bone Batch No.2 Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky (2023) 70cl
1 of 837 bottles finished in a Tawny Port Cask.
A small batch Benrinnes 12-year-old bottled in 2023 at full cask strength by Brave New Spirits as Black Cat Bone in Batch 002 of their Whisky of Voodoo series. This Black Cat Bone 12-year-old Benrinnes Whisky of Voodoo is a limited edition
Tasting Notes
Peach, Melon, mild and thick honey, some herbal notes, dark chocolate
About Whisky of Voodoo Range
Whisky of Voodoo is a range of special, small-batch single malt and single grain whiskies. Designed to entice and enchant, these carefully selected whiskies are matured and finished using the finest casks, often sourced from exotic, far-flung locations.
When planning each series of Whisky of Voodoo, brave new spirits always ensure that they declare the age statement of each whisky, along with the region of origin. Whilst they don’t declare the distillery name on each bottle, they strive to ensure that they choose whiskies from some of the most revered distilleries in Scotland.
About Benrinnes
Located on the lower slopes of Speyside’s sentinel mountain, ‘The Ben’ is another of those intriguing distilleries which produces a highly individual make but which – due to its demand by blenders – has never become a front-line single malt.
It has six stills which are run in two pairs of three. For years a form of partial triple distillation was utilised to help promote a meaty/sulphury new make character. The low wines from the first distillation were split into strong and weak feints. The lower-strength portion was redistilled in the middle still and split into two again, with the stronger part [strong feints] being carried forward, the weaker being retained for the next charge. The strong feints were then mixed with the highest strength distillate from the wash still and redistilled in the spirit still.
Everything is run through worm tubs which are kept very cold, adding weight and meatiness to the spirit. In recent years, this complex distillation has been simplified.
Occasionally seen as an independent bottling, the clearest manifestation of its meaty quality (which puts it in a similar stylistic camp as Dailuaine, Mortlach and Cragganmore) is Diageo’s Flora and Fauna bottling which comes from 100% ex-Sherry matured whisky.
54.1% ABV
70cl
