Comparatively speaking, the nose of Red Spot is gentle and sweet vs Yellow Spot. Delicious apricots, apples and cherries dance around in your nose. There's a bit of slightly smoky, charred oak... hardly noticeable and just a gentle touch of leather jacket towards the tail end of the nose. Makes for a very sweet and fruity nose but with just enough deviation to make you go in for another smell, as its quite different than the million other sherry cask whiskies on the market. The taste starts very fruity with some tart and sweet raspberries; incredibly vibrant. As the whiskey works its way down, a bit of spicy and tingling black pepper underlies the taste and just the tiniest bit of tannic oak ushers in the finish. Not nearly as much tannins as Yellow. The finish brings back sweet fruit after the tannic oak leaves the scene, along with a little bit of baking spice. Red spot seems to be the most fruit forward selection of all the standard spot whiskies. But where other wine cask whiskies literally jam the red fruit flavor down your throat, this beautiful selection doesn't hold your head down in a vat of cherries and raspberries in an effort to suffocate you in red fruit. Thank God for that. No, instead this fruity, sweet and complex Irish really redefines what a wine cask whiskey can accomplish. Bravo, and a must try for sure.