The nose and the palate are very much in sync. delicate and rich mix of some very well placed aromas: coffee, deep unripe strawberries and other red berries, wine gummies, salty crackers, sour plums, a distinct mild spice mix (pepper, nutmeg, ginger), nice chocolaty nougat and soft blanched almonds. All very charmingly smooth and incredibly intense with a certain dryness. What a great whisky this is. The mother of all sherry bombs. I assume there aren’t many who deliver the sherry bomb experience as nice as this one. But you need to be a fan of that to be able to fully enjoy it, because one might find it a bid too much or too fruity. For everyone else this is close to heaven. 

If GD would release a similar age statement as a peated variant I would buy it in an instant. I love the “Glendronach Traditionaly Peated” expression which is an NAS - can you imagine it at 18 years age?