Another nice blended malt from Compass Box who are improving their game, since i believe most of their core expressions are not as good as they claim. This is a balanced, fruity dram. It tells you the story of a time when master blender John Glaser met an old Spaniard who taught him about sherry. This whisky claims to be matured in spanish wine cask which must mean sherry, but really little sherriness is found on it, although it is definitively winey. The bottle, as almost all Compass Box decanters, is incredibly beautiful. Bottled at 43%abv, golden color. On the nose, it is hard to perceive at first since the whole aroma feels dim. Uncorcking the bottle gives you cherries and wine. The big aroma note here is Green Apples. It is very fruity; at first yoi can get an alcohol note, but it quickly fades to a slight sherry with vanilla cream. Grassy, young, vanilla turns into chocolate fudge. Sider. It becomes more tropical, there is a nice complexity to it: pineapple and cantaloupe; fruit salad. After the first sip it becomes even more fruity. A perfect description for the aroma is "a battle between white and red wine". On the palate is not complex, but super smooth, you can hold it eternally in your mouth. Apples, vanilla powder, dim pepper, very pleasant. Barley. Aftertaste offers something different and i like it, since it shows how well crafted this dram is, without being anything you would die for. Hints of smoke, grassy, yeasty. Bitter but pleasant long aftertaste that resembles a beer flavor. Nice touch. Overall this is a good dram for $65. Better than a lot of whiskies for that price, not as spectacular as the label describes. An everyday dram, 83 over a 100 is my score for it.