Cold fruity peat on the nose, intense but not too strong or overwhelming. Cinnamon, milk chocolate, tin canned fruit cocktail, in fact really quite metallic - all in all really nice and smooth. The palate arrives sweet and bitter - only after a short while it become slightly alcoholic and then on the long finish sweet and sour. There is licorice (not the sweet kind) and barbecue sauce. The general taste is briny and fruity sweet with a very mature and prominent peat. Quite an interesting dram. For my personal taste it is a bid to rough around the edges but I can definitely see how it appeals to Lagavulin fans. But that’s the thing - I reckon you need to be a fans of this very unique taste to fully admire it. I personally can’t really approach it - I like the initial nose and and the first arrival but in the end the whole experience is a bid to bitter and the peat style isn’t for me. Too smokey and cold ash-flavored. While it is deep and rich I miss complexity and unity - everything floats away from each other.