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Gordon & MacPhail Benromach 1974

Brand Gordon & MacPhail
Expression Benromach 1974
Type Scotch Whisky / Single Malt
Vintage 1974
Abv 40.00%
Produced at Gordon & MacPhail
Region Speyside
Availability Specialist stockists
Guide Price £41-£70 (US$66-US$113)
Website http://www.gordonandmacphail.com

Tasted in Whisky Magazine Issue 14 by Michael Jackson and Jim Murray.

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Tasting Notes

Michael Jackson

Nose
Garden mint. Marijuana. Incense. Joss sticks.
Palate
Creamy and oily. Peppermint.
Finish
Tobacco. Faint peat smoke.
Comment
I have always found Benromach assertively flowery, herbal, almost cedary. Will this highly distinctive character prevail in the new, smaller, stills introduced since the change of ownership? Tastings on a recent visit suggest that it might.

Jim Murray

Nose
At once flowery and fruity. Marmalade and very sweet vanilla.
Palate
Excellent bittersweet kick-off, complex and tangled but settling for a medium sweet wine gum fruitiness.
Finish
Lots of vanilla intermingling with gentlest arrival of smoke. Rather thin at the death, though.
Comment
Something of a delicate flower, lacks a certain 'oomph' to rant it amongst the greats.

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