Perhaps it's not fair for my first Westward entry on the site to be the Milestone. I'm a fan of what they're doing and have a backlog of whiskies that I quite enjoy to add here, but this dram is on another level. It's complex, yet well-balanced. It's sweet, but not overly so. And it goes down oh-so-smooth. It's a whiskey well-worth savoring, but one that manages to disappear from the glass a little too easily.
The only real strike against this whiskey is the price. It's not that the value isn't there - I'd argue it could stand up quite well against others in its category that fall in the same price range. But at $250 for the bottle, I suspect most whiskey drinkers would opt for picking up several bottles of something else over one of these.
In any case, this is an excellent whiskey. And as the first of an annual series under a solera system, I'm very curious to see how it evolves.