Nose: cherry and spice. Very thick/full nose. Some type of sweet bread is also there. Kind reminds me of eagle rare on the nose. Obviously there’s a price difference. Palate: full and creamy and lots of spice on first sip. Definitely 120 proof. Great coating though. Almost WLW like at first. Second sip: more fruit forward but just as viscous. Finish: pretty lengthy finish on this one. Vanilla til the end. Overall: as always with this one the price point is the first thing brought up. I told myself I wouldn’t buy this and several months later I got a different job with much more income and so I saw it again and said why not give it a go. This bourbon is good. For being a high proofer i think it probably ranks with the best somewhere. The difference is that price. I still stand by that if bourbon msrp keeps going up I won’t be into bourbon as much as I am currently. This bottle will last me a very long time but I don’t think I’d ever buy backups or try to get the other batches. If I finish this one and have a little bit of funds to get another I will buy it if I see it, otherwise I wouldn’t think about it. If this bottle was $75-150 I’d probably take a different view. I’ll give this a good rating only because it’s about the juice not how I feel on the price of it. But if I included price in my judgement it’d be a 1 out of 5. If you haven’t had this you’re not missing out really. Find yourself a Stagg jr and you’ll be much happier.