Tastes

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

Nose - Initial nose you can tell it's a rye in that you get the mint, dill, and general rye bread notes, but in addition due to the port finish, you get a rush of wine stewed plums, dark berries, and a very buttery, vanilla creme brulee. Taste - At the very start you can tell this is a rye in that you get the mint and dill notes that I tend to get from ryes. Mixed in there is also the mulled spiced wine, cherries, raisins, plums, dark berries, cinnamon. It has this very velvety and buttery taste, yet dry oak bitterness in there that feels like crushed pits from dark fruits. Finish - Wonderful warming finish of this oaky dry spiciness, maybe from the French Oak?. Spicy cinnamon that finishes with a stewed plums and what I think you'd get if you took ALL the dark pitted fruits and mashed them together, pits and all. 92/100

Nose - Definitely smells like a young bourbon. Has an ethanol smell, like very young whiskey aged in a young sapling/green oak barrel. Light hint of mint and eucalyptus, slight hint of vanilla, burnt sugar, and a faint hint of honey are also present. Taste - Hits the tongue with a boozy sweet corn taste, hint of vanilla, cinnamon spice and red hots. Faint bit of watered down honey and that's the extent of it. Finish - Has a nice warming sensation, but then immediately transitions to this "green" oaky bitterness like if you were to chew on a young oak twig. At the very end there's this slightly sweet, but bitter taste, almost like if you licked some heavily burnt sugar. 70/100

Nose - Smells like aged, slightly funky peanuts soaked in ethanol. Transitions to a tiny hint of dry hay. Taste - I get hit with an immediate sweetness, unfortunately it tastes like a thinned out corn syrup kind of sweetness. I get a hint of cinnamon spice, followed by peanuts again. Finish - Kind of a tannic feeling finish, but instead of that like a red wine, I get a bitter oak and peanuts. 65/100

Nose - This odd oaky fruity mixture of pineapple, pear, and banana laffy taffy. There's a hint of vanilla in there as well as a hint of caramel rolls, not much cinnamon, slighly yeasty. Hint of black tea? Taste - Taste when it hits your tongue is this oddly artificial spice and sweetness. The spice isn't really cinnamon, nor black pepper, nor peppers, it's just this artificial "spice" taste. Hint of vanilla. Tastes like a splenda sweetened oak tea. Finish - Not much here in the finish. Lightly drying, almost like if you chewed on some dry feed corn or hay in that it's slightly sweet, but kind of bitter too. Almost like you just held a piece of balsa wood in your mouth. 64/100

Nose - Delicious initial nose of cherry and vanilla, hint of oak, hint of butterscotch, and the longer you smell, the cherry turns from the natural fruit into that of cherry cough drops or cough syrup. Taste - A thin, yet oily mouthfeel if that's possible. Hints of cherry, vanilla, very subtle cinnamon and nutmeg. Transitions into a slight fruity bitterness like that of an oversteeped black tea. Darker/red pit fruits, like all of them mixed together make an appearance with the bitterness. Finish - Quite nice and pleasant gentle warming feeling from the higher proof. Lingering bitterness of the oversteeped tea, but then the presence of dark bing cherries and vanilla make an appearance as your mouth starts to salivate again. 77/100