Amontillado color. Loads of cereal grain, sweet vanilla cream and grape jelly all infused with a vein of black pepper, peat, and smoke. The smoke verges on smoked meat occasionally, but it never really goes overboard. Very sweet and grapey on the initial palate. Opens to an abundance of honey, biscuits, cookies, grape jam and black pepper on an increasingly dry finish. Slow to open, but enjoyable all the same. Definitely remember more wow factor from the Benriach Smoky 10. Will check back.