On the nose: Smoked bacon, slight sherry, bonfire, slight toffee and vanilla On the palate: Peat, bacon, medicinal, sherry, sea salt, bonfire smoke, slight vanilla On the finish: Sea salt, peat, sherry, long lingering smoke This whiskey combines the peak flavors of an peat Islay whiskey. Ardbeg’s greatest dram. The peat and the sherry, along with the other notes combine together for a complex but extremely well balanced flavor. A dram is never enough as it leaves me mouthwatering for another dram soon thereafter.