Nose: Buttery, shortbread cookies. Thyme, rosemary, lemon zest. Green bell peppers and fresh cut, wet grass. Pears, green apples. Slightly sour dairy note - like a good cream cheese. Bananas and artificial strawberries - like with bubblegum. Palate: Lemon tart with berries and whipped cream, extra buttery crust. Rosemary, basil, thyme. Slightly metallic, likely from the grain alcohol in the mix. The faintest suggestion of barrel bitter and tannin, but you really need to search for it. Mouthfeel is thin, though not as watery thin as I remember. No alcohol punch, this stuff is VERY friendly. Finish is shorter and begins with the straightforward character, and as things evolve it basically goes top-down: the citrus disappears, then the berries and bananas, then the herbs, eventually leaving you with cultured butter. No real lower palate to speak of. Other notes: For the Irish category, I've only ever had Redbreast 12 and Green Spot in my house, as well as a few glasses in the wild of the nicer stuff (Midleton Very Rare, for example). I've decided to finally dive in and do a proper at-home intentional tasting of some of what is on offer under the Jameson label to see what the other end of this category is all about. I'm glad my assumptions about this stuff was so wrong. Is this whiskey flawed? For sure. Is it still incredibly easy - maybe even enjoyable - to drink? Absolutely. And while I may not necessarily always have a bottle of this on hand from here on out, I'm disappointed in myself for selling it short for so long. It's simple, straightforward, and actually pretty good - very much a drinking whiskey and less of a sipping whiskey, if you catch my drift. Not bad.