If you ever have a chance to taste this, do not pass it up! It’s a single malt whisky produced with barley smoked in separate batches with cherry wood, peat, and beech, then combined in mashing and matured in a single new charred oak barrel. The nose is dry and sweet with cherry pie, nutmeg, vanilla, honey, a touch of dark chocolate, and hints of smoke. The taste is smoky and spicy, and the peat influence comes out here. However, it doesn’t overwhelm the notes of cherry pie, dark chocolate, licorice, honey, and roasted almonds. The finish has a good balance of smokiness and lingering dark chocolate with hints of toasted oak. Excellent!