The 10 year old from Gordon and MacPhail's Benromach distillery. This was matured for the first nine years in 4/5 bourbon and 1/5 sherry casks before a year in sherry casks.
Dry, barley, big on malt and oak. Dry pine, fruity. A tad spirity. Sweet spices after a time and a hint of puckering prune from the sherry cask and maple fudge.
Barley, slightly herbal, a little fruit, grassy. Big on malt, ground ginger.
Mouthwateringly bittersweet. Ginger, dry sherry, almost hoppy after a while.
A great whisky, its maturity belies its 10 years of age and the sherry finish has done wonders.
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This one is like heaven on earth. I'm not a heavy-peated fan, but this whisky has a bit of everything. Sweet, salty, sherry, peat (a little). And for this price, paid less than 30 euro's! Very good!
One of the best scotches I ever tasted. It sure deserves World Whiskies award.
Just bought my second bottle of this for less than £30. Absolute steal at that price. For me one of the nicest whiskies I have had full stop and certainly out of a similar age statement.
Fresh, fruit, salty (liquorish) and a little peat. Very special!
I can only presume the reviewer below somehow had a bad bottle or their mouth chemistry was off kilter! Very good on initial aquaintance; well balanced, complex and an interesting mix of expected Speyside and a smoky otherness...the pre 1970s taste?
