First thing I noticed was that this whiskey is very very light in color. Almost clear but a hit of yellow. The nose is of toasted oak and charcoal. On the palate I get at first vanilla, chocolate, coconut and cherry that then gives way to tobacco leaf, oak, cigar, campfire smoke and bitter ash. The name heavy vapors is appropriate, not for the vapors that come off the whiskey in the glass, but more the feeling you get from exhaling after a sip.