Nose: warm welcoming peat, sherry, brown sugar, slight cigar ash, black cherries. Palate: vaporub, tar, unsweetened chocolate, seaweed, sherry, chlorine, Coca Cola, Carmel, olive oil. Finish: Oily as Fu(&!- wowza, peat, long finish - maybe a bit too long as I wish I could shake off the peat in less than a day- but I guess this is the devils payment for this tongue opening pour. I hate that this is owned by Louis Vuitton- because ultra expensive luxury good are for insecure douchebags - but whatevs - it’s good and I wonder what it tasted like years ago before many of the top whisky companies loosely corroborated to further sacrifice quality for the sake of mass production. I’m a pretty realistic, relative, and logical person - there are many people on here who viciously fall victim to “perceived value” and hype- i am definitely one of them, but I do try to think in terms of being my 15 year old punk rock self with $2.50 to my name again when I’m reviewing stuff- I knew everything and nothing at all at that time, it was a good time for pure thinking and a terrible time for deciding on things in terms of experience- that mindset is one of my greatest assets. I may just be amazed that all of these strange flavors can be compacted into one sip that consequently also packs a pretty nice buzz - or I may have just found an amazing whiskey as an adult and that’s that. Regardless - this is good Stuff; the peat isn’t assaulting (like talisker... ahem) and all the flavors are beautifully interwoven and appear and disappear with good timing. I dig it. Cheers!