N: Sour, damp wood. Black licorice. Recently spoiled orchard fruit. More ethanol than you'd expect from 86 proof. P: More black licorice and sour fruit (mostly apple). This is not a combination that works for me. Behind that, there's a bit of caramel, toffee, and coffee. Finish is basically more black licorice and sour apple, but with a fairly hot cinnamon candy note. This is not an improvement on the base flavors. It's often really hard to decipher the line between a whisky I subjectively dislike and one that is actually just plain bad. This is definitely not for me, but I'm not sure it's bad - in the sense that it's poorly made/executed and really almost no one should like it. I don't get the impression that this is a miss for what the distiller intended, so I don't necessarily think it's poorly made or executed. But I'm not sure who wants a black licorice/sour apple scotch. It's kind of like taking a mediocre (cheap) scotch and then aging it in mediocre (cheap) bourbon barrels. Maybe that was the plan - not totally unreasonable for a ~$30 12 year old single malt. Whatever happened here, I can't do it again. Good luck to you if decide to try it.