Pours a honey-yellow color. Very, very leggy, like raindrops dripping down a windowpane. Looks like a game of Missile Command. The nose is very soft and friendly: caramel, vanilla, marzipan, malted barley, and creme brulee. Banana-flavored bulk candy. Sugarplums and a trace of port wine. There is a citric bite redolent of a lemon drop. The taste is citric lemon drop candy right off the bat. Butter and heavy vanilla creme. Grainy barley and heather/herbs. Stewed cinnamon apples, spiced plums, sweetened prunes and brown sugar. The taste to me is closer to an Irish whiskey than a single malt Scotch. The finish is mild tobacco smoke; fresh coffee grounds and mocha powder. Puckery tannins, and sherried barrel remnants. Vanilla creme, honey syrup, stewed apples. Lots and lots of salt rock. Clynelish 14 is one of the brinier, saltier Scotches. Buttery and creamy. The smoke is more mild tobacco than full-on peat. Tannins, barley, heather, sherry and a citric bite.