Benromach Centenary Bottling 17 year old (43%) Single Speyside Malt Scotch Whisky (no longer available)

Colour: Warm copper.
Nose: Sherried, nutty, vanilla.
Palate: Oaky, slightly smoky, fruity edge.
Body: Medium.
Finish: Liquorice.

Michael Jackson is internationally the most widely published author on whisky. His Malt Whisky Companion is the world’s best selling book on the subject and is in its revised 5th edition. Jackson is a Master of the Quaich.

Colour: Deep, full gold.
Nose: Very flowery, herbal, smoky, complex, long.
Palate: Malty background. Richly sherry-ish. Peachy. Flowery. Lively. Complex.
Body: Firm, smooth and oily.
Finish: Nutty, juicy oak, soothing, very long.

Jim Murray is a legend and leading player on the world's whisky stage. He has even branched out from writing about whisky to now being a consultant blender as well.

After more than a decade of research and discovery he became the world's first full time whisky writer in 1992 and won the coveted Glenfiddich Award each of the three times he was entered for the competition.

Jim is the author of a dozen whisky books, his latest being "Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2004"..

Comment: Light and elegant, a delicate malt selected to mark the re-opening of this excellent Speyside distillery. Some understated sherry and soft malt make for a typically understated dram.