Now that i’m further into the bottle...here’s an updated tasting. This whiskey is just simply an amazing example of the wonders of pot still spirits. Nose: Rich malt, milk chocolate, vanilla and caramel cream, apple turnovers with sugar icing, and then the pot still comes In with hints of copper and nitro lacquer, shortbread cookie and spiced pears. Palate: entry is sweet and oily with a little peppery spice on the sides of the tongue. Warm alcohol burn down the back of the throat. Apples and brown sugar, clove, cinnamon, cherry liquor, bourbon like vanilla, chocolate fudge, pear schnapps (Williams), Finish: slightly tannic and drying, cocoa, cracked pepper, flambeed pears and rum over crumb cake, vanilla and toffee.