A gift bottle, this is something I don't think I'd ever seriously consider on my own. While I love finished whiskies, flavored bottles I hold in less esteem. So my biases are out there, I enjoy a strong bitter cold brew coffee. I really enjoy Irish whiskey. I'm not a Jameson fanboy by any means, but I'll approach this with an open mind. I'm in the process of tasting my way through a few weird things in the amaro/mixer cabinet and this fits right in. I'll be commenting on Van Gogh Double Espresso Vodka right after this experience. First pour from a newly opened bottle (neck pour) tasted neat from a glencairn. The pour was given about 10 minutes to rest before evaluation. This liquor is a total coffee color in the glass. It looks like something between flat Coca Cola and drip coffee from the morning pot. Translucent with little sheeting on the swirl. The nose is almost pathetically weak. I expect the aroma of coffee, natural or artificial but I'm getting almost nothing. No whiskey notes I can identify, just the slightest trace of generic coffee and a faint wisp of ethanol. I'm certainly losing confidence in this now. Let's go in for a taste. Watered down whiskey in bad coffee, left in a mug overnight. Perhaps with some cigarette ash in it. Bitter, nasty finish. Good god, this is bad. Jameson themselves say to mix this with cola, add ice, mix with coffee, anything but drink it neat. I should have listened to them.