Tastes

Nose - Nose is very fruity and floral and you get hit with vanilla, pineapple, a light cinnamon, peach, and what is like a faint hint of bananas foster if you were smelling it across the room at a restaurant. Taste - Hits the tongue and you immediately feel that it's a bit thin, very light, mild, almost floral and fruity quality to it. You get classic bourbon notes of vanilla but also present are some fresh peach, banana, light pineapple, light cinnamon and allspice, as well as a "rose water" type of sweetness. Finish - A bit after you swallow, there's a faint lingering sweetness of peach and pineapple that seem to fade into this slight bitterness like if you were too eagerly eating a peach & bit into the pit a bit. 76/100

Nose - (w/o water) - very hot due to the proof, but light oak, vanilla, sweet cherries, milk caramel. Very hot and sweet. (w/ water) - very similar nose, but with the heat toned down quite a bit. In addition I get a sweet honey and something almost like a sweet chocolate covered pineapple piece. Taste - (w/o water) - Hit with sweet cherries, vanilla, light oak, sweet milk caramels, slight bitterness like you'd get from overly toasted almond skins in an English toffee. (w/ water) - the water tones it down and I get an extra taste of delicious milk chocolate that has dried cherries in it, wonderful. Finish - (w/o water) - You get a lingering cinnamon burn that transitions into a slightly bitter taste, like if you bit into a cherry pit or apple seed. There's still hints of sweet vanilla and faint dried cherries. (w/ water) - The water tones down the cinnamon burn as well as the bitterness and I get more of a sweeter vanilla, but the milk chocolate I got in the taste transitions into a darker chocolate with dried cherries. 91/100

Nose - Like it's sibling, you get a nose of dark pitted fruits, primarly plums/cherries. Cinnamon and vanilla also play a part but you also get a smell like if you took cherry coke and tried to reduce it down to a syrup, but you kinda forgot about it and it almost burned so there's this heavy caramelized sugar, slightly burnt sugar, smell mixed into a sweet cherry coke. Taste - You get dried cherries/plums like the nose from the start. Cinnamon spice from the higher proof. Dark chocolate nibs in that it's slightly bitter from the oak. Faint vanilla cream that's kind of hidden by a mouthfeel and spiciness like that of very fizzy cherry coke. Finish - The dark chocolate bitterness lingers and transitions into a chocolate covered cherry coke with a hint of cinnamon and oak. 81/100

Nose - Has a very sweet nose of sweet fruity honey, cherries, vanilla, dark corn syrup, almost a cherry cream soda. Taste - Hits the tongue with vanilla and dried cherries with a faint hint of cinnamon and allspice. Very smooth almost buttery mouthfeel that transitions to a faintly oaky cherry cream soda. Hints of darker liquid brown sugar and dark corn syrup are present too, but faint. Finish - The smooth buttery feeling lingers transitioning to a more spicy cinnamon, red hot which fades to a slightly bitter oak and cherry/plum pits. 80/100

Nose - Very sweet nose, vanilla, cherries, cinnamon, pineapple?, and a faint hint of cherry flavored cough syrup, almost like Robitussin. Taste - Oddly get this mildly sweet caramelized bananas flavor along with vanilla, cherries, a dry oak, cinnamon spice, and what appears to be a slight bitterness like biting into a peach pit. Finish - You're hit with a cinnamon spice, the remaining bitterness from the peach pit, a drying feeling from the oak, and any sweetness that you got while tasting seems to fade almost immediately. 80/100

Nose - Initially hit with dark pitted fruits, vanilla, dark chocolate covered almond english toffee, Werther's candies. Taste - Initially hit with sweet dark, but dry bing cherries, toffee, vanilla, perfectly browned sugar on creme brulee, but without the cream. Hint of super dark slightly bitter dark chocolate and cocoa nibs. Finish - As it goes down your throat, your tongue is left with an isntant hit of cinnamon spice from the higher proof. Very drying mouthfeel, again from the proof and a slighty oaky bitterness like that after you've eaten some slightly overtoasted cocoa nibs 81/100

Nose - Faint cherry cough syrup, wet cardboard, vanilla cherry diet coke in that there's this artificial sweetness smell to it. Taste - Hits the tongue with a bitter oak, cinnamon spice. Very thin mouthfeel. Hint of bitterness like over roasted honey peanuts with the skin on in that it's kind of sweet, but a little bitter from burnt sugar. A little tannic like you've bit into a peach/nectarine pit by accident, but has more of a dark pit fruit taste like a underripe cherry or plum. Finish - There's a lingering short bitterness that fades into a cinnamon spice. You then get this sort of unpleasant damp cardboard/wood taste with a dry bitterness. 60/100

Nose - Bit of spicy cinnamon caramel, hint of vanilla, faint hints of wet cardboard and cherries? Taste - Slightly thin, yet dry and buttery? (I know that's conflicting but whatever). Faint hints of peanut, light oak bitterness, cinnamon spice, over toasted wheat bread. Finish - Fades pretty quickly but doesn't leave your mouth dry like the taste initially suggested. Slightly bitter oak and what seems like overtoasted peanut skins. 70/100

Nose - Interesting nose on this one. I get a light buttery vanilla caramel, buttercotch. Hint of dried pineapple or the white pineapple life savers. Hint of brown sugar. Definitely a sweet nose. Taste - Thin but buttery mouthfeel. Vanilla, faint cinnamon spice, brown sugar and clover honey. Finish - Relatively short, slightly bitter oak, the pineapple on the nose makes its appearance here, but very faintly. 78/100

Nose - Hits you with the typical rye notes of rye bread, mint, dill. Then you get vanilla, caramel, a very buttery creme brulee, then something oddly refreshing, like a bosc pear. Taste - Attacks your tongue with a spicy cinnamon. A hint of mint and cocoa nibs make their presence along with the fruity pear from the nose, followed by a very buttery vanilla ice cream. Finish - Cinnamon spice lingers, like red hots or a buttery atomic fireball, but without the artificial sweet but more of the vanilla butter / creme brulee. 89/100