This Scotch has grown on me, i'm tasting far more then i initially did when i opened the bottle. Nose: Green apples initially, a little sour; honey; and after it's sat in the glass a while i'm getting smoke and sea salt. Taste: rich and honey sweet, spicy head and a smokey tail. The taste lingers like if i had eaten vanilla flavored peppers. Finish: a tingly feeling in my mouth I don't experience in other Scotches, like an angel had fed me popping candy. But for nearly $90, it can put popping candy in someone elses mouth.