Rating: 9/23 Bottle kill here. Finally. N: Sugar, clean river water, and also confectioner's sugar. There's some hazelnut adding richness and a reason for this to exist, but that's about all that's happening. P: Super sweet with hazelnut and confectioner's sugar. The hazelnut flavor is decent quality, but fairly weak. There isn't much complexity here, but that does mean it works well if all you really want is that hazelnut flavor and you can put up with the sweetness. F: Not a ton of confectioner's sugar, but there is some. Clean water. Sugar. Vaguely some hazelnut. - Conclusion - So I bought this for making confections. For that purpose, its primary flaw having too much of that confectioner's sugar profile is not a big deal. The lack of fullness, however, might be a bigger problem. If maybe needing to up the amount of this in your recipe (or possibly try boiling it down and then spiking it with vodka) isn't a problem, the hazelnut flavor is solid and it's a cheap bottle, so I'd recommend it for cooking. My rating, however, will be based on its drinkability - either neat or in some variety of cocktails. I only know of a couple of cocktails that call for hazelnut liqueur and none that I consider to be staples, so this rating is really going to be based on its drinkability. Which is not very good. I really don't enjoy drinking this. Pouring some over ice cream works pretty well, but just drinking it is not fun. I'm looking at a 9 to 10 here. I think It's going to be a 9.