Nose vanilla, peat and some bacon upfront and some sort of tarmac comes through. The taste starts with sweet vanilla a distinct alcohol burn takes you to a metal youthfulness and a bitter smokey finish which is a sprinter and fades very quickly. Only a unpleasant bitterness sticks to your mouth for quite some time. The balance of this whisky is rather off and all in all it is by far not my favourite dram. Not recommended.