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Contrasts: Peat Smoke

Natural Colour | Peated | 46% vol
First-Fill Bourbon Barrels
Contrasts: Peat Smoke

A bestseller and on-going small batch release from our Contrasts range. Our Benromach Contrasts series tend to be innovative and contrast in flavour to the Benromach core range house style. It’s our time to be experimental and with Peat Smoke, we get to be punchier with our use of peated barley.

Matured in exclusively first-fill bourbon barrels gives this whisky sweet vanilla notes with lemon sherbet and apricot.

Distilled in 2014 and bottled in 2024, the latest small batch of Peat Smoke has aged for 9 years.



 
 

Tasting Notes

Colour

Light Gold.

Aroma

Very rich smoke with fragrant vanilla and light citrus zest. Hints of apples develop accompanied by white chocolate.

Palate

Smooth with toasted oak, honey and sweet ripe fruit. Butterscotch and marshmallow flavours lead to a lemon sherbet all alongside sweet smoke.

Finish

Mouth-coating sweetness and bonfire embers.

Flavour Profile

Spice level 6 out of 10
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Sweet
Spice level 4 out of 10
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Spice
Spice level 6 out of 10
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10
Smoke
Spice level 6 out of 10
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10
Tropical Fruit
Spice level 4 out of 10
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10
Citrus
Spice level 1 out of 10
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Rich Fruit

Benromach Contrasts: Peat Smoke

Where our Benromach Core Range typically have a phenol level content of around 10-12 parts per million (PPM), Peat Smoke contains much higher levels with the latest batch containing 57PPM, making it our most intensely peated single malt. The heavy peat influence offers a smoky bonfire embers finish.

Feeling experimental? If you enjoyed Peat Smoke and enjoy cooking, why not use in one of our recipes? We teamed up with chef Sarah Rankin who created some incredible dishes which use our Contrasts Peat Smoke whisky.

AWARDS

2021 World Whiskies Awards (Silver)
2021 International Wine and Spirits Competition (Gold)
2022 Whisky Magazine – World Whiskies Awards (Silver)

Whisky Cocktails

Want to play with flavour and try one of our recommended cocktails? 

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Smoked Orchard 
Green Apple & Cedarwood Sour 
KC Colada 
Peat Garden
The Blackberry Benromach 

 
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