Here’s another standard blended scotch for you. 12 years old, alright. The nose is sweet with light fruit notes of pear juice, light citrus and apple, slight peat edginess, a little malt, vanilla and some other grain whiskey like corn. The palate is sweet and slightly oily and juicy with more pear, malty nuttiness, corn spirit, vanilla some black pepper on the back of the palate. The finish is surprisingly long and has some lingering peat, spice and vanilla. Very pleasant and well known blended scotch. I do pick up the other grain (corn) in this, I assume that is part of the 40 different whiskey blend. I know this is supposed to be on the more peaty side, but I’m honestly not getting much of that. Probably because I enjoy and am used to really peaty whiskies that hit me over the head with a heavily charred campfire log.