Quickie review EDIT: Nose is ashy tobacco, definitely some barley. Some kind of broccoli/sulphuric business on the nose which I can't say I love. A drop of water opens it up a bit, releasing a little more flowery stuff. Peat, mint leaf, tobacco ash, vanilla, apple skins, has a cooling feel at the finish. Very earthy without being extremely peaty. Like the taste, some floral/perfume stuff emerges when it opens up. It finishes a little worse than I had hoped: ashy as hell, although not unpleasant. It's just a little one-note at the finish. A droplet doesn't quite solve this. It's not unpleasant by any means, but there isn't much complexity. It's mostly ashy tobacco, which is not going to be enjoyable for a new Scotch drinker.