I swear, it's getting hard to remember what I have and haven't reviewed from my bottles. I haven't reviewed a longrow 18 yet? Lets first review the old purple box version. I'm guessing this was 2010-2012 bottling range. No date to be found on this one. And for anyone interested I do have a bit of cork floating in the bottle and I had to replace the original cork (and I just broke the new cork so this bottle is on to its 3rd cork...screw caps people!). These are going for about 200 these days, but my store literally dropped the price from 240 to 200 the day after I bought this bottle, the last of the old boxes. Oh well Nose - I get sherry and grape bubble gum on the nose. Rich wine and citrus and hints of sea salt. As i explore I start to get BBQ over salty pork ribs. Taste - So this is a really hard whisky to explain, perhaps why i haven't reviewed it yet. It's sweet, it's light, it's subtle up front. If the Longrow Red's are in your face expressions of finishing and high abv the longrow 18 is a prim and proper dram, worthy of a statesman. There's peat, there's sherry, but it's all muted and refined up front. It then explodes on the finish where everything from vinegar, red wines, salted meats, sugar cookies, oak, and this classic longrow funk remain. It's almost too subtle and muted at first taste, but there's a sleeping giant behind it. This is a bit under whelming for me, and I plan to review a newer bottling next to compare. Still the complexity is there, the nose is one worthy of hours of time, and the flavors are great. 3.75 - I cannot give this one a 4, it's a bit too light up front for me, but it's one hell of a whisky.