Benrinnes 12 Year Old (2012) Passito Di Caluso Cask / Finn Thomson

70cl Bottle

55.5% ABV

Speyside Single Cask Single Malt Distilled at Benrinnes Distillery and Bottled by Finn Thomson Independent Bottlers

Aged 12 Years

1 of 290 bottles

Cask No. 312881

Cask Type: Passito di Caluso

Producer's Notes:

THE STORY OF THIS CASK
Sitting in a wine bar in Milan in November ahead of Milan Whisky Festival I found myself reaching to my bag to test one of my latest innovative cask samples. This was a single cask of Benrinnes that had spent 8 months lying in a Passito di Caluso wine cask. As I sipped the new sample I compared it to the wine itself, trying to fully understand how the intensely sweet and fruity wine has integrated with the meaty and nutty style of this Benrinnes single cask.

Passito di Caluso is a Sweet Italian dessert wine from the Piedmont region. It has a production process that goes all the back to 500 BCE when the Ancient Greeks would pick the grapes from their September harvest and increase their sweetness by sun-drying them before fermentation, Nowadays it is a much more uncommon method but the Passito style of wine is a hidden jewel amongst the world s sweet wines.

Benrinnes is the perfect candidate for a cask like get a rich combination of the raisin and date flavours of the wine alongside the savoury notes from the whisky, The sophistication and elegance of Italy meets the ruggedness of Scotland in an intense burst of flavour, each sip a
celebration of this collaboration between Italy and Scotland.