2014 edition, bottled early July. This is in the new white boxes or as I like to the call them "should I just throw the box away?" edition. Nose - This reminds me at first of a really sweet red wine. Almost a wine with sugar in it. Then I start to pick out some of the salty notes from the peat. There's a bit of a baked good in here as well. Almost red wine, soy sauce and maybe a baked cookie. then there's a light gently toasted oak note at the end. Taste - Not very sweet up front. Soft and gentle. As it goes to the back of the tongue you get savory salts and then the whole things just goes bonkers with sherry and BBQ and oak tannin and there's even a bitterness here to go with the savory and the sweet and salty. Super complex. So I just did a 2010-2012 range bottle before this 2014. The older bottle was sweeter and had the better nose. The 2014 here however has more going on in the finish and brings in more intense extremes in the bitter, salty, heck there might even be a slight sour note. I think I like the 2014 more but I'm still going with a 3.75. I think longrow 18 in both cases is just missing something for me to push it into the higher scores. Sure 50% would get it there but there's more to it. There's just something missing here. I'll have to eventually get around to buying a few of the newer bottling, I think I had an 18 recently with some friends, but that was a dizzying day of drinking the best of the best.