Easy, enjoyable nose with fruit, maybe banana, vanilla and malt. There's malt in the taste too, along with pepper and spices, toffee, vanilla and sweet fruit, like over ripe banana. Oak comes into the finish along with a little sherry and some smoke. Good, but not great. A blend in every way (fruity, malty, oaky, smoky) and perhaps for that reason nothing stands out or marks this whisky as special to me. This one doesn't seem any better than the cheaper 12 year old and nowhere near as good as the 25 year old, so falls a bit flat in the middle, hence two stars. If I gave half stars this one would be a 2 1/2 star whisky.
