Neat. Neck pour. Starting to get more and more into scotch lately. Something about a single malt goes better with summer to me. Super excited to find this one. I have loved every Ardbeg I have tried thus far but everyone tells me this is the best among the more widely available bottles. Oh what nose. Getting behind the well balanced peat, there is this combination of sweet and savory. Peppered beef jerky, leather, coupled with stewed fruit, vanilla scones, and slightly sour pears. Hint of chocolate too. Really runs the gambit of these light and dark notes. Texture is perfect and oily, really digging the higher proof and non-chilled filter. It mostly sits dark on the tongue with the peppered jerky but then there is a cinnamon sugar sweetness. Almost BBQ like really. Smoked BBQ. Everything on the nose is there throughout the taste. Peppered meat, leather, stewed fruits, and pears. Peat and pepper linger on the legs. Very impressed with this pour. It is the most balanced, flavorful, pronounced Ardbeg I have had so far. At $89, probably one of the best overall values in whiskey across categories too. (Within two minutes of me posting this my wife came in for a kiss, was completely repulsed and louder said “Ew what the f***!” Her score of this dram is much lower than mine apparently.)