N: It's like walking through an orchard in the fall - very ripe apples, peaches, pears. (I'm sure those don't all ripen and harvest at the same time/place, but just imagine...) There's dried fruit too - apricot, red fruit, raisin, fig. Faintest whiff of citrus. Very light smoke in the background - again, really reminds me of a midwestern fall, it's like someone a mile away is burning their leaf pile. Speaking of leaves, there's definitely a subtle note of tree bark and/or dried leaves. Maybe a little bit of dark bread and spice (anise, cardamom), but maybe now I'm just lost in memories of the fresh picked apples and leaf piles from autumn days in my childhood in the Twin Cities - I might be only imagining the bread. Still, a whisky that gets you lost in memories is a damn fine whisky in my book, regardless of how it tastes or smells. P: The fruit hits first, but it has an odd flatness to it - like all those flavors that pop in the nose are mashed down and combined into one sort of big anonymous fruit note in the palate. That fruit is sweet in the first half second, but a sharp tannic and also herbal tea-like bitterness comes in, washes that away, and then sticks around through the finish. The bitterness seems to bring out the citrus a bit more - it's a grapefruit citrus (although the bitter is not quite that intense). There's a veggie-like peat quality that hovers over everything and also lingers long into the finish. Dash of liquid smoke. Finish is all wood and blazing hot - like hot wing hot. LL really doesn't have to say on the bottle that this was finished in American bourbon barrels - it's quite obvious. Char, oak, oak tannin, red hot cinnamon candy, little bit of black licorice - all the hallmarks are there. It's an aggressive finish. Nose here is great - well rounded, well developed. The palate lacks some of that development. Flavors get sort of compounded and mashed together. It's unpolished. And that finish is a monster - the kind that makes you wonder if it was intentional or not. All in all, interesting bottle at a pretty fair price. It makes me curious to step up to the older LL single malts and see if they can maintain that quality nose and bring some more polish to the palate. Could be a killer in the lineup. Thanks to @soonershrink for the recommendation, although it was so long ago that maybe you don't remember. I don't really remember the context, but I'm fairly certain you suggested this in a comment some months back. Anyway, thanks!