Darkness Benrinnes 16 Year Old PX

The Darkness Benrinnes 16 Year Old PX is a very special whisky that we have been dying to release for around 18 months now. We actually committed to it in 2021 as a 14 (and a half) year old – but Sam at Darkness asked us if we’d be interested in leaving it for a bit longer to hit the 16 year old mark. It’s not often these days that 16 year old whiskies pop up at a price that allows us to offer it, and so we committed to ‘the looong wait’ – keeping this under our hats until now! And it’s finally here! Please make way for the Darkness Benrinnes 16 Year Old PX.

Benrinnes is a bit of an oddball distillery in that it rarely releases a distillery bottling of its whiskies. In fact, the ‘Flora and Fauna’ release of is the only official Benrinnes release. The rest goes into blends and to the independent bottlers. So once more, we owe the indy bottlers like ‘Darkness’ a huge thanks for making this distilleries single malt accessible to us all.

Darkness are sherry finish specialists – led by Sam Simmons – independently bottling Speyside whiskies with their own signature twist. They finish all their releases in specially coopered sherry ‘Octave Casks’. Also known as ‘Quarter Casks’, these are relatively small 64L barrels. The huge surface area to volume ratio these Octave casks provide ensures the greatest uptake of the depth and richness of flavour only a sherry cask can provide.

The Darkness brand flies a little ‘under the radar’ here in Australia. One of the brands from the unassumingly named ‘Atom Supplies’ portfolio (which also include ‘That Boutique–y Whisky Company’). Various Darkness expressions are available from time-to-time in small quantities in a few specialty bottle shops. So you can easily be forgiven for never having heard of, let alone laid eyes on one – Lets change that…and you will not be disappointed with the for Darkness Benrinnes 16 Year Old PX!