Nose: Underripe oranges, green apple, shortbread cookies. Creamy - that pot still mustiness is really well balanced here. Vanilla. Crème brûlée. Earthy nutmeg and allspice. Figs. Cocoa. Sweet, but in a delicate sense. Very friendly and inviting without being flat and boring. Palate: There's that soft, creamy. sweet vanilla again. Earth, nutmeg, and allspice slowly give way to the most understated cinnamon note. Coffee, a little leather, milk chocolate. This is mostly mid palate - not necessarily a bad thing. The sherry cask shows up, along with subtle tannin character. Finish starts off with chocolate covered coffee beans and orange zest. That slowly turns into bitter chocolate ice cream, but with a little more vanilla than usual. Slowly everything disappears from the bottom up - eventually left with bananas, orange peel, and then finally cocoa powder. Other notes: I am really glad I'm revisiting this. I recognized the quality here the first time I had this, but I sold it short due to my own preconceptions with Irish whiskey. Coming back to this with a more open mind has given the a chance to recognize just how good this stuff really is. The execution with this stuff is top notch. Every single person I've suggested it to has had the same reaction - "Woah". Well worth having a bottle on hand.