Tasted 4 bottles blind. The bourbon cask, sherry cask, rum cask, and 12yr single malts from grangestone. Nosing and tasting notes are from the blind tasting. On the nose there is an anise spice over a malty mustiness reminiscent of wine barrels. A light vanilla and burnt sugar lay in the back ground. The taste surprisingly has a light smokiness to it up front which was a surprise. Following that is a maltiness like toasted biscuits with clove and anise. The finish was spicy, short to medium in length, with a vanilla thread running through it. More of that faint light smokiness as well. Overall this was my second favorite of the four though closer to third place than first.