The nose is perfectly balanced between a modest but respectable peat level, and honey-drizzled Summer fruits, mainly citrus. The nose is like what would happen if more peat was added to Glenmorangie. I don't normally notice mouthfeel, but Talisker has a great one, gentle but full, delivering an impressive amount of flavor. The ABV is picture-perfect for what it manages to do. The base is golden malt cereal with just a drop of orange juice, and this combination is somehow flavorful enough to make you forget about the enormous cloud of smoke that has been developing around it from the start. By the time you notice, it has already overtaken your taste buds, but very gently so. This is like a carefully-prepared gourmet seaside dinner, smoked and heavily-peppered, honey-glazed and with absolute perfect char...except that the protein has been replaced with a nectarine. If Old Pulteney and Glenmorangie ever had a wedding in the Iron Islands (thus uniting Pyke with Highgarden), during a siege poetically set in slow motion in the distance with "Oceanborn" by Nightwish playing in the background, then Talisker might have been what you just drank.