Benrinnes Distillery 12 year old Passito Di Caluso Italian Wine Cask Finish Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky from Finn Thomson Whisky 55.5% 70cl

Benrinnes Distillery 12 year old Passito Di Caluso Italian Wine Cask Finish Speyside Single Malt Scotch Whisky from Finn Thomson Whisky 55.5% 70cl 

From one of the worlds oldest whisky families, curated by it's ninth generation. 

From the Finn Thomson 'Private Cask Collection' this Benrinnes 12 year old from Cask No. 312881 is both Natural Colour and Non Chill Filtered. Limited to only 290 bottles, each bottle is individually numbered. 

Cask Finish: Passito di Caluso, a Sweet Italian dessert wine from the Piedmont region of Italy. 

Distilled 02/08/2012 and bottled 03/02/2025

The Story of the Cask:

Sitting in a wine bar in Milan in November ahead of the Milan Whisky Festival, Finn reached into his bag to test one of his latest innovative cask samples. This was a single cask of Benrinnes that had spent 8 months lying in a Passito di Caluso wine cask. The intensely sweet and fruity wine had integrated with the meaty and nutty style of the Benrinnes single cask.

Passito di Caluso is a Sweet Italian dessert wine from the Piedmont region. It has a production process that goes 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.

The Passito style of wine is a hidden jewel amongst the world s sweet wines.

The Benrinnes is the perfect candidate for a Passito cask like this. It is not easily overwhelmed so we 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.