This is an old Seagram era version of the 10 year old, first bottled in 1994 as part of the Heritage Collection, which also launched new single malts brands for Longmorn, Glen Keith and Strathisla. This followed similar packages from United Distillers called the Classic Malts in 1988, and the Caledonian Malts from Allied Distillers in 1991 as the historic blending powerhouses of Scotland slowly adapted to the newly buoyant single malt market at the time.

This expression was discontinued in the early 2000s after the collapse of Seagram and subsequent closure of the distillery.

Benriach is a distillery with long-standing transatlantic connections. It was procured by Seagram in 1978, the former Canadian drinks empire, and is now in the hands of the Brown-Forman corporation, via Billy Walker who rescued it from a brief mothballing in 2002. Walker bottled some of the peated whisky that Seagram had begun producing there for its blends in 1983, and the positive reaction to these means the distillery now produces both a peated and unpeated single malt. Benriach is one of only seven distilleries in Scotland to still operate its own in-house floor maltings.