Nose- Corn husks on the grill, toast, apple skin, oak, vanilla bean, caramel, musky like a barrel room Taste - Heavy oak of course. Your really get the age right off the start, then vanilla and caramel, dark red apple, tannic, Finish- oak still, almost green pine with slight bitterness, I tasted this bottle 2x before I did notes. First pour was much oakier to me. I really wanted a bottle to taste the barrel in and this delivered. Great way to give a newbie a prominent flavor to look for in other bottles they taste but I wouldn't drink this often.