Benriach turns to Muhammad Ali and Oasis for inspiration when launching The Magnificent Seven

Posted on October 12, 2007
Filed Under For the collector, Speyside, WhiskyBuzz |

The 4th batch of BenRiach ‘Limited Release’ Single Cask bottlings were unleashed towards the end of August 2007.

With a nod to the famous 1960s epic Western, a ‘magnificent seven’ single cask bottlings are available on general release.
The vintages range from 1975, the year that Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in the ‘Thrilla in Manilla’ and Queen’s ‘Bohemian Rhapsody‘ topped the UK singles chart for 9 weeks, all the way through to 1994, when Edvard Munch’s painting ‘The Scream‘ was stolen from a museum in Norway and the arrival of ‘Britpop’ was confirmed with both Blur and Oasis topping the UK album charts with ‘Parklife’ and ‘Definitely Maybe’ respectively. Heady days.

Details of the vintage bottlings are as follows:

- 1975 cask 4451, 31YO, port pipe, lightly peated / port finish
- 1976 cask 4469, 30YO, port pipe, richly peated / port finish?1978 cask 4413, 29YO, Moscatel wine barrel, lightly peated / Moscatel finish
- 1978 cask 4416, 29YO, Tokaji wine barrel, lightly peated / Tokaji finish
- 1984 cask 4049, 22YO, port hogshead, richly peated / port finish
- 1985 cask 3766, 21YO, Oloroso sherry butt, richly peated / Oloroso finish
- 1994 cask 26, 13YO, port hogshead, richly peated / port finish??

Each vintage is hand numbered and bottled at cask strength, natural colour and non chill filtered.

Benriach also enhanced the packaging, introducing mocha chocolate colours with ‘nirvana’ gold foiling, raising the profile of the product on-shelf.

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