Islay with sherry and light smoke. The nose is a little funky - leather and salt air pop right up, with some road tar and (of all things) a new tennis shoe/rubber sole smell. The palate, mercifully, does not taste like a shoe. The sherry influence is obvious - big note of dried dark fruit and almond, all generously salted, with some smoke at the very end, albeit very light. I'm not in love with this one as much as, well, anything else from Islay, but it's a good dram. 3.5.