Stunning colour. Deep dark as though it was heavily poured with iodine. The nose is powerfully warm, full and alluring so one might not back away from the glass and then really get dizzy. Aroma is full of really dry and a bit bitter raisins, prune, dark chocolate, black currant, burnt sugar and almond. Polish and citrus zest notes typical to Auchentoshan are recognizable in Three Wood but they tie up with that plummy bitterness though. With time it starts to reveal some splendid sticky-sweet dried ashberry and chokeberry aroma and it even has a light but piquant jojoba oil fragrance-alike scent. The taste correlates with the aroma - full bodied, warm, complex and sweet - unputdownable. The citrus hints and bitterness are a bit more expressed so are the sugar and prunes as well. Some spices, fig, syrupy cherries (sherry cask influence), licorice and creamy biscuits. The finish is all sweet again. Not very long with a bitter end on a palate. Auchentoshan Three Wood is one of the sweetest malts I’ve ever tried so it might be compared to bourbons in its sweetness and not lose a game in that case.