N: Huge red fruit scent: dried, fresh, and red wine. Behind that, it's a lot of what I remember from the base Copper Pot whiskey: lemon and bread that comes across as lemon cake or cookies, plenty of vanilla, hints of toffee and caramel. Maybe a flash of chocolate powder. Dashes of mint. Not too complicated, but really nice. P: Red wine, caramel, vanilla, chocolate. It all combines into a nice bread pudding sort of feeling - rich, heady, heavy, sweet (but not too sweet). Little bit of tangy wood tannin on the sides of the tongue leads to a light/medium spicy finish. Finish is mostly baking spice, but a little bit of wood. Again, not too complicated, but nothing wrong with it. Spotted a lone bottle of this hanging on a shelf at one of my haunts and thought a Marsala finish on anything Writer's Tears sounded really nice. And this is really nice. Lots of flavor, easy to drink, very enjoyable. I've been going to it night after night because it just feels right at the moment. But the Marsala wood isn't worth double the price over the regular WT Copper Pot. This is a $50 bottle, not $80. At $50, I would repeat this regularly (if I could find it). At $80, there's too many better drams out there (and readily available). That said, this is lovely and I'm on the edge of polishing off the bottle in about three weeks, quite a bit faster than normal.