Benromach Château Cissac Wood Finish 2009 (bottled 2017) (70cl, 45%)
Produced in small batches, this exquisite Benromach Wood Finish is matured in First Fill Bourbon casks and finished for no less than 25 months in hand-selected casks from the illustrious Chateau Cissac within the Appelation Haut-Medoc Controlee in South-Western France.
It's the 2009 vintage Château Cissac Wood Finish expression from Benromach. This is initially matured in first-fill bourbon casks, then moved over to casks from Château Cissac in Haut-Médoc for 25 months before being bottled at 45% ABV.
Benromach distillery in Speyside was built at the end of the 19th century, and spent much of the next providing malt for the blends of its owners, who included Macdonald Greenlees, Joseph Hobbs and latterly, DCL (now Diageo), who were the first to produce a distillery bottling of its single malt as part of the Rare Malts Selection. DCL closed the distillery in 1983, selling it to current proprietors, Gordon & MacPhail, ten years later. They then had to spend the next five rebuilding it from scratch, as little remained other than the shell of the buildings. It has since become a well-regarded and widely distributed single malt.