Nose - dark fruit, light sherry. Taste - deep fruit carmel amd tang at first, then the sherry numb comes through. Not a sherry bomb but its def there. Finish- the sherry numb fades along with the sweetness. Pretty long finish. This is a great value non peated sherry cask scotch. It might not beat some other 20's but its cheaper then some 12's and 8's.