It smells like vanilla was forcefully injected into the whiskey somehow. On the palate, you could immediately taste the malt whisky; it doesn’t taste like any Japanese whisky I’ve ever tasted and I’ve had a few. Vanilla candy at the front of the palate with a bit spicy, minute pepper note in there that screams ‘Mizunara Oak!’ at the top of its lungs kind of note. Finish is very dismal, almost like drinking a Vanilla Coke with bit of water added in. It just immediately dissipate into nothingness. Cool bottle, but that’s the only positive thing about this bottle. I’ll finish it somehow and keep my other whiskies in the bottle for show.