I find this blend's marketing strategy more than a little annoying.  Firstly they claim to be world's oldest distillery, they dont even claim to be the oldest whiskey distillery and use the date 1757 in their labelling.  I think they are wrong on a couple of counts.  I have to been to Mount Gay in Barbados  who claim to have been distilling since 1703 and secondly (and this is the the big one) the distillery is not operating.  Today this blend is manufactured at Cooley's.  There are plans to re-open but this to me is more than a little misleading.  As for the product?  Well I like the nose, it has stewed pears at first then some honey.  Sweet and fruity.  The taste is quite light, brown sugar, bananas, some vanilla and something I could not quite place, but almost metallic and not too pleasant.  The finish is spicier than taste would suggest, oaky and peppery which created some balance issues for me compared to the very light taste.  Maybe my issues with the marketing had an unfair negative impact on how I was predisposed to this one... but whatever the reason it didn't do anything for me.