A friend brought this to me after he tried it a few times and didn't enjoy it. He wanted my opinion. We don't always agree, so I kept a completely open mind. I can only describe this whiskey as awful. It was bad enough that I did not linger over the fine points of it's descriptors. There was a dominant, unpleasant, but difficult to identify flavour on the palate. Finally, it clicked: soap. With that note in place, I will stand by my description of the palate as "dirty dishwater", which is where the rest of this bottle belongs.