Have been excited to try Waterford. I’ve never had an Irish single malt and they’re doing some really cool (obsessive) tracking of their production. You can get lost on their site buried in farmers, barley type, yeast strains, soil, fermentation, and on and on and on...they even have recordings of farm sounds (seriously). It’s pretty complex for a whisky that’s only been aged just under 4 years. It does taste slightly young but it’s exciting to imagine where it will taste with a older age statement. N - light fruits, grain forward, citrus zest, slightly floral T - pear, dusty barley, cherry, some pepper F - oily finish and butterscotch sweet Would be fun to do a tasting of their others side by side to get the full “terroir” experience. Since I got a bottle went with Gaia which is a mix of multiple farms. It’s very tasty, maybe slightly overpriced for what you are getting now. But wanted to try the 1.1 to have a frame of reference for down the road. Waterford’s vision statement on their site ends with the fact they want to “create not just the most compelling Irish whisky, but the world’s most profound single malt.” Ambitious. I’ll enjoy trying their whisky over time as they embark on that journey.