They say you love or hate the Mortlach flavour profile. After sampling this then a few other drams and then this again to make up my mind I'm definitely in the former camp. It's a really interesting taste, a spicy, meaty, rubbery slightly metallic sherried profile that balances out quite nicely. Reading that back after typing it I think that sounds terrible but it isn't. Now this isn't cheap just shy of $140USD here (which is weirdly a lot cheaper than the UK where it's from where it's $200USD) for only a 500ml bottle. I'd love to buy a whole bottle and see how this develops over time. The only criticism is a bit like the compass box range the slight bitter metallic (or in the CB case turpentine) after taste lingers. It's an 18 year and it is also very unique and so for those reasons despite the price I'm sticking to a solid 4 overall rating. If it wasn't for the price it'd definately be a higher rating. Even an hour later I'm still thinking about it's taste. I have a (entire time in sherry barrel) 41 year bottle from this distillery saved for a special occasion so it's going to be very interesting to see how that one turns out.