Dalwhinnie 15 Year

Nose: honey, vanilla, smoke and pepper. The ethanol washes out the pepper notes fairly quickly. Taste: mouthfeel is oily, slick, and smooth. The taste itself isn't as rich as it feels in your mouth. Notes of vanilla and honey ring through, with faint pepper that creeps in. Finish: rather short - sweet & salty

Vanila cytrus spicy sweet taste remaining. I bought 200ml bottle as 16 pound at distillery

Spicy note. Enough good whisky. I Visited the distillery and directly bought it.

Nose: Sweet barley and honey. The slightest bit of salty smoke comes through. The nose is mellow but pleasant. Some peppery oak notes burn the nostrils slightly if I try too hard. ⠀ Taste: At first, this whisky seemed so "gentle" that I wasn't getting much out of it. I found it boring and it really needed some time on the tongue to open up. After sufficient time, tasting it sends a sudden mix of mellow sweet barley, earthy bitterness, and ever so slightly smoky notes to coat your palate. The mellow sweetness lingers and the earthy tang turns into a peppery, orangey zest. The pepper lasts well into the finish, but the sweet smoke note is actually what lasts the longest. ⠀ The mouthfeel is somewhat oily but the flavor is more semi-sweetness and earthy bitterness as opposed to the creamy rich sweetness you might expect from the texture. ⠀ I'm really not sure what to think of this whisky. It started out a bit boring and then quickly become a bit more intense than I expected from "The Gentle Spirit". I generally prefer either a sweet or a meaty and salty rich scotch, and this doesn't really deliver either of those. This has got some classic highland notes, sort of a more earthy bitter Glenmorangie 10, but I'm not sure how much I like it. I may have to rate this one again after further tastings.