Gordon & MacPhail Benromach 1974

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.