It's taken me a while to get to the point where I feel I can review this whisky, as it sent me on a rollercoaster ride initially. My first dram was quite pleasant and what I expected - a nutty, slightly spicy, lightly fruited dram that wore its sherry influence on its sleeve, but in that particular Glenfarclas style. It fell, as I expected, somewhere between the 10 and 15 year olds for complexity and body. My second dram was a disaster - I'm assuming either my taste buds were out of sorts, or I accidentally grabbed a dirty glass, or something, but it tasted foul and I almost didn't come back for a third dram. But I did, and then a fourth, and I'm happy to say that Dram #2 was an aberrance, nothing more. It is precisely what one comes to expect from Glenfarclas - dried fruits, nuts, a lightly smoky black tea quality (think Russian Caravan), a pinch of mint, a little something sweet from the bakery. It suffers a bit from comparison to older expressions, which simply bring greater complexity and longer finishes to the table, but it is an immensely drinkable sherried single malt priced quite favorably. For me, there's no need to bother with the 10 Year when I can buy a bottle of this for only an extra $7-10.