N: Honey, dried flowers, citrus cream. A luscious, fragrant, perfumed peat smoke drips off everything in this - it has that same perfume character of a Lagavulin, but this is softer and more subtle. Sour stone fruit. Cardamom bread (pulling that one from deep in the childhood memories - summers in the UP - but I'm certain of it). Ethanol is present as a fairly pervasive numbing of the nose. Dried tobacco and a dash of cigarette smoke. Vanilla and a subdued orchard fruit open later. Little bits of tea, pine, and earth that feel connected to the peat profile. P: Honey, brown sugar, reduced and cooked stone and/or orchard fruit (I get both at different times). Black tea, chocolate powder, buttery phyllo bread. Dash of citrus that could easily be a lemon cake or cookie. A bit boozy hot, but nothing unbearable. Middle gets very oaky with the wood, char, and cinnamon heat. Dash of firewood too. Dash of campfire, actually. Peat and smoke is softer on the palate than the nose, but there's a feeling like standing next to a fire as it's just getting going - more wood, less ash, but plenty of heat and smoke. That gets more pronounced as you move to the finish. Finish is dry with a big baking spice background and more honey, chocolate, oak, cinnamon, yeasty bread, and dried tobacco. Excellent dram. It feels like there are some intentional rough edges - like the ethanol in both the nose and palate, and the big oak in the middle (which is not exactly "smooth," as seems to be the only goal of many distillers) - but I like the chances taken and the overall profile is an interesting clash of delicate and blunt force. A (possibly) strange analogy: this reminds me of hockey - combining the deft and delicate touch and timing of a perfect wrist shot or a perfectly weighted pass with the sheer brutality and force of a check into the wall at speed. This dram successfully, interestingly, entertainingly brings together delicacy (honey, perfume-y peat, tea) and brutality (ethanol, oak, smoke). It's both soft and powerful. Absolutely worth grabbing a bottle. And then another - easily repeatable.