Benrinnes 21 year old Grand Crescendo (Diageo Special Releases 2024), 55.4%

Lush red and black fruits on the nose, with apple pie, strawberry jam, plum, morello cherry, graphite, and vanilla toffee. This is beautiful, but it retains that muscular Benrinnes character lurking in the background. Layered, approachable, and fruity, with cherry, bramble, raspberry sauce, a peak of spices, then glacé cherry and rose-flavored Turkish delight. A mouth-coating finish with lingering red fruits and residual spice.