The nose is enticing with plenty of fruit and some smoke. The flavor though - Immediate stale bread D: For Highland Park, the flavor is surprisingly weak, with fruit making up the bulk of the flavor aside from the gross bread. It doesn't taste like much and definitely tastes young. This is not a whiskey worth sipping. There are several flavors in here, but they are across the board and not of high quality. It's all kind of generic and it doesn't vary over the course of the sip. There are vanilla and some citrus notes mixed with smoke and of course stale bread. Not much in the way of toffee is present, though there might be some mild red fruit in the background.