speyside-ways

recently, a friend wanted to exhaust his minimum monthly amount to keep his membership at the royal lake club and so decided to invite a few of us for drinks.
there was the usual range of alcohol at the bar but we were attracted to a display of bottles at a corner of the bar.
our lips smacked. it was single malts.
i picked the benromach traditional single malt whisky, which incidentally was only launched in 2004 just year after the distillery was reopened in 1998 - which is basically a century after the original distillery was founded.
speyside single malts are renowned for their elegance and complexity of tastes and a measured smokiness that make them quite delicate malts, as we found out with the benromach we opened that night.
the distillers create the single malt by hand, using the finest peated malted barley and the purest spring water from the nearby Romach hills, maturing the whisky in hand selected oak casks as proudly touted in the bottle label.
the straw yellow 40 percent alcohol by volume malt has a citrusy nose with a nice measure of peatiness that invigorates the soul.
the taste is peppery and smoky with a nice floral but aggressive finish.
apart from the royal lake club, you can pick up the benromach at the single malt and available stores in either bangsar village I or plaza damas, sri hartamas.