Gurkhas and Guns

Inexpensive bottle brought home to me from a friend who visited Nepal. The description says it's a "rare 10-year-old Speyside single malt aged in sherry casks, blended with famous Highland malts matured in bourbon casks." Blended and bottled in Nepal. The nose is honey, apple, dried fruit. The palate hits with a lot of vanilla and brown sugar and finishes with honey and dried fruit. A little orange peel. Maybe the tiniest wisp of smoke. It's quite sweet, bordering on artificially sweet. I wouldn't be shocked if I learned that this has a little sweetener added, vanilla sweetener especially. It's surprisingly drinkable, however. I don't know what else might be available to buy in the price range at a Nepali liquor store, but I'm sure there are worse choices. For whatever reason, this hits me as about on the level of Jameson Black Barrel, maybe slightly lower.