Ben Nevis was founded in 1825 by 'Long' John Macdonald and stayed in his family until 1941, when it was bought by the eccentric Canadian Joseph Hobbs. Hobbs already owned several other distilleries (including Bruichladdich), and would go on to found Lochside in 1957, taking the unusual step of installing Coffey stills for grain whisky productio ... Read More »
A full-bodied malt with a whiff of peat. 'Brilliant! Just a hint of fettered spice, and then waves of oak and malt with vanilla... A truly great malt. 9/10' Jim Murray in Whisky Magazine, Sept 2000 Web-Exclusive Price!
A 1992 vintage whisky from Ben Nevis, a distillery who produces a lot of spirit that goes into Japanese blends. This was bottled at cask strength after 19 years in a sherry butt by Signatory as part of their Cask Strength Collection.
A cask strength distillery bottling of Ben Nevis 12yo from the 1996 vintage. This is another single cask bottled for Swedish whisky society TKS and, as with their previous port wood bottling, this has been re-racked - this time into a fresh bourbon cask.
A 25 year old distillery bottling of Ben Nevis, distilled a couple of years after the death of Canadian Millionaire owner John Hobbs. From the colour on this one I'd guess that some of the whisky has seen the inside of a sherry cask...