Paul John Peated Select Cask Single Malt

chocolate caramel, honey, cocoa, thick malty, vanilla 3.5 thick oily, nutty, sweet nectar honey, oaky, slight bitterness 2.5 oaky and long sustained 2.5 Tobasco sourness fermented chilli, heavy oily, damp wood, masculinity, low to mid pep 3 oily iodine, strong complexity, but quickly overwhelms with a nice pleasant coat of red berries and slight sweetness, finish off with a sustained woody oaky note, richness and complexity is a definite good trait 2.5 oaky, mid sustain 2.5 2.75

Aroma: Honey! Floral, only faint peat and...fresh water. Smells great. Taste: Holy $%!*! Spice, alcohol, power, punch, too much! Let's try a smaller sip. Ok, flavors of whisky, thin honey. Alcohol punch on the lips and tongue that lingers. After-taste is sweet. 1/2 dram and 3 drops of water now. That helped to reduce the alcohol punch, taking it down to heat, that glowing feeling. Sweetens the aroma. Ah, there's the peat flavor. So it seems, for me, this would be best with a splash of water in it or else on the rocks. The water really brought out the peat but not super-strong Laphroaig-style. Ratings are based on neat sipping.