Benriach Smoky Twelve offers tasting notes of smoked vanilla, charred orange, toasted almond, and dark chocolate on the nose, with a palate featuring fruit peel, brown sugar, and smoked oak. The finish is described as a lingering blend of cocoa and smoked orange. The whisky gets its characteristic smokiness from a combination of peated and unpeated spirit, matured for at least twelve years in bourbon, sherry, and Marsala wine casks.