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Review #109: SCN Ben Nevis 23 year (1996)

We've both been scarred so heavily by an Old Malt Cask bottling of Ben Nevis (review here), that we usually pass by any Ben Nevis offerings and spring for scotch from basically any other distillery.

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Review #36: Old Malt Cask – Ben Nevis 21

I can't put my finger on what went wrong. But something went terribly wrong and the distillery sold off the cask.

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