N: juicy ripe fruits, apple, pear, honey, sherry, cherry, citrusy grilled orange slices, baking spices. After 10-15 minutes of letting it open up, dried fruits start popping through, brown sugar syrup, granola cereal notes, floral notes of rose and carnation but very subtle, old leathery notes, peat is hard to pick out initially but it’s there. P: wonderful orchard fruits, brown sugar, malted cereal, a quick pop of citrus and baking spices that leads into a light brine and is immediately followed up with a smoked peppery char that builds as if you just slowly turned up the volume, finish is medium to long dominated by the smoked peppery char and fades to the briny sea air, a little sweet richness creeps back in as well. The 51% surely helps keep that edge. It is most definitely a JW, all the characteristics are there, but it is quite well balanced. This is an excellent contribution by JW that I’d purchase again if I could find it.