Sweet and oaky with a nice bite of spice.

It's got an interesting umami note, with a nice spice on the end

Its got a nice sweet light meat nose. Smooth taste light sour and sweet.

Nice and hot with a sweet finish

This one is really fun to get to know. At first sniff you get the slightest hint of the classic JD banana note, but then this gives way to more vanilla, honey, herbal notes, and some oak spice. Subsequent sniffs also bring some neat fruit and cream smells. The first taste immediately reminds you there is rye in this blend with some upfront spice, which then gives way to cream and honey with the banana showing up again faintly towards the back. The finish is quicker than I suspected, but this is where the maltiness also shows most prominently. Overall, totally unique and enjoyable.

Don’t love it or hate it. Now with pictures! @Mark-McNamara

Nose: Bananas Foster with Spanish peanut garnish, cotton candy, caramelized sugars, hints of browned butter, dark honey and stone fruit, whiffs of honeysuckle or black locust blossom. Palate: Sweet honey and brown sugar with baking spice and rye/white pepper mixed in. The honey found on the nose darkens and gets deeper. Barrel char shows up in the finish and balances the initial sweetness. Oak lingers softly toward the back of the finish with a soft accompaniment of dusty peanuts. At sub $40, even at the 700ml bottling, this knocks it out of the park. I haven't had a JD offering this intriguing since the single barrel barrel proof. Score: 9.256 out of 10