Really wanted to like this, as I'm a sucker for a flavourful bargain blend. I can accept a slightly astringent mentholy finish as that is par for the course with young blends, but the sulphur nose and slightly sulphury palate spoil this. A couple of small ice cubes numbed it out after 10mins and that's when the famed balanced grouse flavours finally came to the fore... Palate: Honey, salted caramel, heather, gentle peat smoke ..Maybe guilty of trying to achieve too big and balanced a flavour profile for a young whisky?..and instead ends up with that weird and harsh sulphur edge. I would definitely recommend taking a couple of small ice cubes and letting them sit with it for 5-10mins, to get rid of that initial funk and allow those single maltish like palate flavours to actually come through.. Pound for pound it's a very solid effort, though I prefer Ballantines for this £15 price range, as it has none of that sulphury business going on, albeit with a less complicated vanilla and smoke blend profile. **EDIT: a few weeks later, half the bottle gone and thank God that sulphur smell and taste has finally disappeared!! This is now at last, quite an enjoyable blend and thankfully no longer requires ice. A little thin as most blends are, but if you enjoy a mild/middle of the road flavour profile scotch/single malt you'll likely enjoy this blend.