Neat. Opened about 3 months. So I really didn’t care for this on the neck pour. Time to revisit. Additionally, around this time I began realizing a certain food may be messing with my palate if I eat it before I drink whiskey. So clean slate here, giving it the benefit of the doubt. The nose is very oak forward. Little pine in there too. Like being in the woods on a dry summer day. Oak melds a bit with the sweetness creating a dark chocolate. Fresh wheat bread, lots of baking spices. Cinnamon, little clove. There is this odd powdered sugar density. Like it tickles the nose. The longer I sit with it, this deep vanilla is emerging and taking center stage from the oak. Honestly, this is just coming off flat. I recently opened a Maker’s Community Blend that blew me away on the nose. This has no stand out characteristic on the nose. Decent mouth feel. Not creamy not thin. Slightly oily enough to coat. Cinnamon sugar on the tongue, very sweet. Vanilla coming through as well. Mid-palate the vanilla sweetness gives way to a dry, bitter oak. It’s astringent. If I try hard to get passed the bitter oak, I can find a nice chocolate note but it’s not worth the journey to get there. Rich vanilla building in my throat, really lingers. The aftertaste building is actually kinda good. But once again not worth the journey to get there. Okay, I gave it a shot but safe to say this will go down as my least favorite Maker’s release. Ranks below RC6, 46 Cask, or any Private Select I have had. Just can’t understand what they were going for with this release...