Tastes

(Note, that because this is a small reserve, and micro batches, flavor may vary by year, check the date of any review you read! :) Heavily orange and vanilla notes, with some dark chocolate and sometimes minty notes thrown in. (Sometimes tasting like a chocolate orange) Almost as strong as a flavored whiskey, in a good way. (Not extremely sweet) Tons of flavor for a 1 year, likely due to the orange and oak wood chips thrown into what I believe are already smaller barrels. (Smaller barrel = less time needed to age) If you're in Florida, find a bottle and keep yourself stocked! Have one to give to a friend! An amazing whiskey, especially for this price, but also rarer and likely only available in Florida. If you aren't a fan of orange notes, or vanilla notes (I wasn't huge on orange originally, but like it more now) you should at least try it once! Another interesting thing about this bottle: it tasted great when first opened, and still tastes the same after well past the shoulder. (Many whiskeys change some there)

Dry, Oak, Sweet, Spicy, Pepper, Full It seems there may be many hidden flavors in this one that I'll have to try to find. Transitions through flavors, starting with a very dry plain taste, into the oaky note, before giving a short tap of a sugary spicy sweet note, giving a strong peppery note, and then fading off into a dry oak again. Never lacking flavor, and very full. At this price I would likely buy again, but certainly isn't comparable to the any of the mid range Bourbons I've owned. (Side note: I plan on putting this into a mini 1L White Oak barrel and aging it a bit to see what I get.)

Floral, Light, Sweet, Light Brown Sugar, Floral Citrus. I'm a huge fan of the single barrel, this may be like a watered down version with primarily a stronger floral taste. Which, personally, is the one note I dislike from the single barrel. It also doesn't have as much of the fruit/pear note that the Single Barrel has. It is always possible that there are more hidden notes that I'll find in the future. (Note: Four Roses products always taste better to me in the AM/early morning. Too late in the evening I only taste the floral, and really dislike them, so after tasting this in the AM I have bumped it's rating up.) Edit: after getting past the shoulder, this tastes a lot less floral and has a decent amount of darker sugar taste. :) Changed rating to 3.5