This one needs no introduction. When I first joined Distiller, I reviewed this is an about 20 words. Now I'd like to do it better justice. Nose: Usual suspects. Rich peat and campfire smoke. Some brine and salinity, with a touch of seaweed and iodine. Apple, orange, and lemon, and blue raspberry. Vanilla cream and caramel. Smoked meat with some baking spices. Black pepper and cinnamon. Roasted nut and oak. Solid nose as always. Palate: Layers of peat and campfire smoke. The saline notes are now accompanied by some earthier peat. Apple and heaps of blue raspberry flavor. Vanilla, caramel, and mixture of milk and dark chocolate. Citrus and agave. Some black bean red pepper chili adds just a little spice. More roasted nut and nice hit of oak. Finish: Ashy, sulfuric peat and campfire smoke. Sea salt, citrus, and blue raspberry, again. Black bean red pepper chili hit on the final waves of what makes for a medium-length finish. My initial Distiller review for this was 5-stars. I'd award the same rating to most Lag 16 pours I've had at bars and wherever else. This particular bottle, however, is missing something that the rest had. It's still great, but something important is definitely absent. This bottle recently underwent a price increase. This particular bottle is a step below any other bottle of Lag 16 I've ever had. This is a revision of a 5-star review--I gave it the benefit of the doubt a dropped it a quarter-star. That is subject to further revision. For better or for worse. There are bad bottles in every batch. I won't rule that out. But it is concerning that I paid a good chunk extra for this, and it's not as good as I remember. Like I said, I gave this the benefit of the doubt. I will update this review as I finish the bottle, and I will inevitably buy another to confirm this wasn't an off-bottle. As for this review, I'm factoring in all of my previous experiences with Lag 16, and while I'm being hyper-critical of this one, it's only because I hold this one in the highest regard. 4.75.