The aroma starts out heavy and almost inky, but after a few minutes in the glass it blossoms to this intensely rich, dark, funky and powerful aroma that runs from dark fruit to sweets to oily-sooty-wax and back; Palate runs the same path but pulls up more herbal and tar notes that further darken this whisky, pulling it into a nexus of heavy dark notes; Finish is one of the most expressive and long running I’ve had in a while. This is everything you want from a sherried Ledaig.