Rating: 10/23 Foursquare is great, right? I'm about to find out if their low end stuff is great too. N: Sweet with a kind of tart fruitiness. It's like a cross between white cherry and blue raspberry Icee. The more I sniff, the more I get some spices, but they aren't the ones I'd expected. Rather than heavy cinnamon and the like, I'm getting more like coriander and clove with some lemon and something else going on. It's very odd. P: Kind of light, shockingly dry, and very spiced. I get those same clove and coriander notes from the nose, along with a dash of cardamom, perhaps some ginger, and a jumble of other spices that tend toward the bitter, herbal side. Some white pepper. There's a little lemon and a bit of mint as well. It's surprisingly like someone poured some Fernet Branca into a lightly aged rum. Very odd. There's a bit more of a watery element than I'd like, but aside from that this is on its way to being a quite solid liqueur. F: Dry with those same herbal spices and a mild drying, tingling effect. - Conclusion - This was not the sweet, syrupy, cinnamony concoction that I'd expected at all. It's sort of like just having Cuervo Silver and then trying a real (but mild) blanco like Partida and realizing that the category was totally different than I'd imagined. This is intriguing and I can sip about half a glass before I get sick of it, but I'm not really sure what to do with it. Based on neat sipping, I think this can't be better than a 12, but neither is it worse than a 9. I think I'd give it a 11 neat. I like the funkiness and I want to give it a higher rating, but it's just more interesting than it is tasty and it doesn't have the fullness that I'm looking for, especially as a mixer. A higher proof would definitely help this. I might drop it to a 10 on a subsequent tasting. Actually, I'm dropping it to a 10 now. I'm still struggling to figure out what to mix it with. It might be a good substitute for a lightly bodied reposado tequila in something. In a rum-based cocktail, it's kind of hard to think of a situation in which I'd want this instead of something like Plantation 3 Stars or Plantation Xaymaca. Thanks to @ctbeck11 for sharing.