NOSE
Smoke, coppery dried dark fruit (plum heavy), herbal, malty, cocoa, nutty with a slight vegetal note.
Not bad, not bad at all. Not my favorite Laphroaig Cairdeas nose, but not bad.
PALATE
Coppery dried dark fruit (blackberry heavy), smoke, herbal, malty, nutty, cocoa, freeze-dried strawberries, with slight vegetal and menthol notes.
It’s a bold, brute force, flavor profile.
FINISH
Long -> Smoke, dried dark fruit and malty sweetness fades out to smoky cocoa, menthol and copper.