Nose is heavy on the peat but after that it's more approachable, tasting much less of smoke tannin than your nose indicated. Graham, cocoa-dusted maraschino cherries, old oily lantern grease, stale lemon tarts I sipped it neat and found that perfect. My bottle was a dusty, with a "2016" born on date. Hoping the quality has stayed, because this bottle is dynamite at the msrp.