This is like an Islay.  The nose is strong rather than complex.  There is a darkness to the taste and a slowly released warmth.  Peaty but not so much to distract you from the flavour which is a bit like chewing tobacco, if chewing tobacco was made by Wrigley’s.  Nonjatta claims that it leaves “a mouth full of gravel, ash, dust” but I respectfully disagree. This is nothing like the Lagavulin school of malts. Rather it is a masterful display of how to do rounded and peaty at the same time.  I do however think Nonjatta has it right with “oaked white wine” (I missed this one!), although I’d add that it is a cheap white wine. Because it’s a whisky though you don’t get that awful bitter gasping sensation that strikes after you drink an unsubtle white wine.

I like this dram. Nights by the fireside. I should also add that the Yoichi 1987 bottling won the 2008 World Whisky Awards prize for the best single malt whisky in the world – these guys know what they are doing.