Distillery founder John Duff travelled to Kentucky and South Africa, in pursuit of whisky adventures. When he returned in 1898 he proceeded to build BenRiach. The distillery has one of the more versatile whisky ranges, from peated and unpeated to triple distilled and many exotic cask finishes. The BenRiach Curiositas uses heavily peated malted barley and ages for a total of ten years. It is an aromatic, smoky whisky, yet offering something vastly different than its peated brethren from Islay.
