NOSE Smoke, coppery dried dark fruit (plum heavy), herbal, malty, cocoa, nutty with a slight vegetal note. Not bad, not bad at all. Not my favorite Laphroaig Cairdeas nose, but not bad. PALATE Coppery dried dark fruit (blackberry heavy), smoke, herbal, malty, nutty, cocoa, freeze-dried strawberries, with slight vegetal and menthol notes. It’s a bold, brute force, flavor profile. FINISH Long -> Smoke, dried dark fruit and malty sweetness fades out to smoky cocoa, menthol and copper.