2008 bottling Nose - very clean for a longrow. Sugar cookies all day with light toasted oak, vanilla, and an ever so savory/salty funk from springbank. As springbank/longrows go this is clean as it gets. Taste - It opens very spicy, a lot of pepper and heat. Youthful but not to the point of completely lacking any refinement. Still a young and hot whisky. A nice upfront sweet, hint of medicinal, and hints of sherry but mostly just fruity vanilla springbank malt. The finish brings a good peaty and earthy element with a short lived flavor but somewhat long lived slight puckering from the peat and bitter and alcohol. Wow it's really sweet right up front, it's like this spey or highland and then in comes the clouds and smoke and bitter. Honestly if you're a fan of younger peat bombs like laphorag and wanted a spring bank twist, this is it. I'll add a comp with the CV and NAS later. Stay tuned there. I paid about 130 for this dusty. 2.5, I'm digging it. Well above average but not refined or sophisticated enough. It's also a bit thin.