First and foremost, this is nutty and medicinal, with a pretty strong overlay of seaweed, toffee, and...is that...fish oil? The aftertaste has that kind of numbing, witch hazel hum that will remind you of your earliest experience with cheap brown liquor. Listen, I prefer single malts that have an attitude, that make a statement, that shriek "I am here, dammit!", and this spirit does that. Do I wish there was more peat, maybe more cherry or vanilla (as opposed to that toffee/nougat thing!) and less of the rubbing alcohol-like numbing anti-taste? Why, yes I do. Yet the Laphroaig 10 says, I AM IN YOUR MOUTH, PAY ATTENTION, and I like that. And this is probably why I rate this as high as I do.