Really more like a 3.5 here. This was had toward the end of the EPIC Loch Lomond/Glen Scotia tasting I attended, so feel free to take my impressions with a grain of salt, but...there's just something about the Loch Lomond malts that makes them a bit funky on the nose. It came out here, too, along with more pleasant vanilla and caramel notes. The palate isn't funky in the least, but instead becomes a very warm, spicy, expressive dram oozing with vanilla, caramel, and stone fruit. It was tasty; if it weren't the slightly off-putting nose and the price being a bit too high for me, I'd give it 4 stars.