Swing and a miss, oh wait that's baseball not hockey. Everybody and their dog Rolf, is wanting to be in the liquor business these days and who can blame them. From Clooney to Jordan to the Rock, put your name on a bottle and make a fortune, it's all the rage. Sadly (or not) it just isn't that easy to crank up and crank out great bourbon. Not that Balfour doesn't have a good Master Distiller that knows what they're doing, I'm sure they do, but slapping staves in a barrel whipping up something great isn't as simple as it sounds. If it was Rolf's bourbon would be rockin at the nearest bar. This seems like a good base 2 to 3 maybe even 4 year old bourbon, not a bad one, it's just that adding "finish crafting" isn't the substitute for time that these neophytes would want you to believe. So how is it? The nose offers up some nice sweet vanilla and caramel base sugars and yes some noticable wood making for that after shave old english leather note. Not a bad nose not that you would ever mistake it for say Woodford Double Oak. The refinement just isn't there. That's the problem, this is priced premium and you could get a Makers 46 for half the moola and it's going to be as well crafted (and better in my view). Oh yea, the taste, it's front standard bourbon confectionary notes, strait into a middle of some acrid wood bitters, pecan nut, sure why not, or walnut or pick your bitter wood nut nib. Tailing off it's not really bad just not distinct in a way that really makes me want more. Maybe some higher proof and another 2ish years and it would stand up to the already much better priced 1792 Single Barrel. I'm sure it will sell well at bars where a fancy looking bottle is as important as the product contained within, if that's you, cheers! That's just not me.