For a nine-year-old whisky, this is excellent.
Does need quite a bit of water and patience to get the balance right, though. Too sharp without water.
Improves mightily in the open bottle.

First of all delicious, but you can tell the alcohol stings your nose easily. Young, that's clear. If you miss the alcohol, then it's nice and classic clynelish. Salty, very maritime, a little mineral and then also slightly dirty rubber. The typical clynelish mineral scent wars with brush cleaner. Sometimes it smells like clynelish, then it tips over into the brush cleaner or turpentine or something.
Hidden behind these notes and the alcohol I find tropical fruits, they are very tasty. In addition, a little vanilla and slightly tart oak. Some grass?
For the age there is quite a bit of complexity, but only if you can smell the alcohol in the glass.
It continues exactly the same in the mouth, which for me is a very logical continuation of all aspects of the nose. A little darker honey is added, and finally, as it should be, the beeswax. The brush cleaner is no longer strong to taste.
The finish is long with tart and spicy oak, some black pepper and still a lot of alcohol. The dark honey sticks to the palate.

Delicious paints, but clearly too young and too stinging for me. If you pass the liquor the flavors are great. Difficult to rate ...

N-87, T-89, F-87, totally good 88 points

I know this received some rather nice reviews, most notably 90 points from Ruben of WhiskyNotes, but it's really not that good to be honest.. (As an aside, I do think Ruben is a great reviewer, but this was definitely a miss from him).