Nose: Sweet short bread, dried apricots, butter, slight barrel char, and a tad bit of cherry. Taste: shortbread, buttered biscuits, and a sweet fruit finish: apricots, apple, and cherry Experience: it's morning, it feels early but you actually slept in, vacation and all that. The bed and breakfast has fresh baked biscuits and an assortment of jams and preserves, you decide to try them all. I wish the 12 year variant was further separated from the base Tullamore, however this is more high praise for their base than it is a knock against the 12 year.