The nose has a tart, peaty seaweed quality. It smells kind of herbal and bitter but fairly rich. It smells a bit like a more tart, less grainy, less chocolate-malty Laphroaig 10. The palate is similar to the nose. There's a lot of salt with bitter-tart seaweed and tobacco from the peat. There's some malty character and a bit of nectar floral sweetness and vanilla the makes it seem a bit Irish, but it's definitely strongly an Islay whiskey. I appreciate it well enough and am decently happy to sip it, but it doesn't have anything really exciting going on. Laphroaig 10 is more chaotic with dark chocolate and campfire notes mixed more cereal this a more restrained with a restrained bit of spice adding harshness. There's kind of more of an oiliness to it too. The flavors mostly go together, but I'm not a big fan of the result. There's some fruity sweetness, but it's not too strong and it's nothing exquisite. The flavor profile does gradually grow on me though, so I'd be happy to sip this. It seems hard to be more quintessentially an Islay malt, but in achieving that feat, the result lacks its own interesting character. It's a bit better than Laphroaig 10, but for the money it doesn't seem worth it.