Appearance Color: amber reddish, dark, deep Clarity: clear, pure Legs: hard forming, low speed, pretty thick and spaced out Nose: raisins, fruity, sherry, bourbon-y, chocolate Taste: sweet, fruits, raisins Finish: medium - long, a certain dryness Add water: Nose: vanilla, pear, sweet, honey, smoky Taste: sweet, peary, fruity, peat - weak, at the end with a little malt, smoke. A bit of dryness. Finish: pleasantly long Oddly, there's a more pronounced smell of smoke that stays in the glass after you have finished it than when the whisky is in it. Body: Balanced, rounded Makes me think of armagnac. This whisky is like a trip. Made in Scotland, Islay - it makes you travel way south, in France with a resemblance of armagnac but it gets you back on Islay with a hint of peatiness. It's like a translator: from Scottish Gaelic to French, it translates the roughness of Scotland into the “douceur du sud de la France “ but still keeping its Scottish personality. Very well suited, in my opinion, with (as) a desert.