The website has a lengthy page to cover the large range of Benriach whiskies, plus other details on the history of the distillery with plenty of photos; and some further details about the distillery and its management team.
VisitingNo visitor centre, but Connoisseur's tours can be booked for £35.00, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10:00 and 14:00. Advance booking essential.
My visit to BenRiach Distillery in June 2011 featured tasting of a stunning range of samples dating from 1971 to 1993 recently drawn from the cask. Vital Stats
Longmorn founder John Duff decided to build a second distillery (initially known as Longmorn II) next door - but by this time the Pattison ** scandal had hit the whisky industry, he went bankrupt and had to sell both distilleries. While Longmorn prospered, BenRiach was closed (apart from its floor maltings) until 1965 when it was purchased and completely renovated by Glenlivet Distilleries Ltd. The maltings worked until 1999...
The Glenlossie railway had already been built to connect that distillery to the Morayshire railway near Longmorn, and another siding was built to reach Benriach, these rail links appear to have survived until the Morayshire Railway was axed in 1968. They needed peated malt for their blends, so they started producing peated whisky as well as unpeated at BenRiach. Though never intended for single malt release when it was distilled, the peated variety has enabled susequent owners of BenRiach to bottle a wide range of both peated and unpeated single malts. In November 2012, BenRiach recommenced floor malting at the distillery, and the following year the company bought Glenglassaugh. The Benriach Distillery Company was bought by Jack Daniel owners, Brown-Forman, in 2016. ** I originally had a link to a SMWS article on this, but that has disappeared since the re-design of the SMWS website, the above link is to a short piece on wikipedia, for a more in depth look at ths important episode in whisky history, see the glenlochy.com website. MaltMadness whiskymerchants Wikipedia scotchwhisky.com SMWS |
Getting ThereClick the Google logo on the above map to see the area in Google Maps.
Open Cycle Map Bing Map Glenlossie Longmorn Glen Elgin Speyburn Distilleries Speyside Distilleries Lossie BenRiach Distillery is two miles south of Elgin on the road (A941) to Rothes (8 miles). Nearest station is Elgin (ELG) (2 miles) Live Train Times. If your bike's laid up, there's a bus stop outside - hourly service Mon-Sat Elgin to Dufftown RangeBenRiach bottle an extensive range of whiskies from the NAS Heart of Speyside (40%), through 10, 16 and 20 yo (all at 43%) to the premium ages 25 (46.8%) and 35 (42.5%). Not forgetting the peated range, the wood finishes - and the peated wood finishes. There are only a few "Latin-style" namings left all in the peated range (Curiositas 10yo; Septendecim 17yo; Authenticus 25yo - all at 46%). There are also frequent releases of limited edition single cask whiskies.
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Photos on this page were taken by me. Click on photo to enlarge. Full size versions of all my photos of BenRiach Distillery are available on Flickr.
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