Nose: sea salt caramel, peat, sherry (fruity), faint honey, toasted almond Body: medium Palate: sea salt caramel, sherry, honey. The nose and the palate line up nearly exactly. Finish: crazy crazy crazy long finish. Smokey, Salty, caramel, Note: another taste from Jared. Of course given the HP 18 is my favorite scotch this is likely to be up there as a top single malt for me. This is tasted neat. This is a very refined single malt. Extremely easy to drink, no pepper. The sweetness kicks this off with a wonderful smokey sea salt caramel that just lingers forever. This is exquisite.