This bottle has been sitting inside my cabinet for months, untouched and often scowled upon as a pariah for taking up valuable space in my bottle collection due to a prior experience with regular Nulu bourbon which was dreadful, sour, made disastrous cocktails and eventually met a brown waterfall death as an $80 bottle of Drano. So why would I get another bottle, well sometimes the bourbon gods bestow gifts to their faithful partakers as my cancelled bourbon of the month club failed to notify their distributor of my departure which serendipitously resulted in a free bottle of Nulu Toasted and Blanton’s single barrel. Curiosity has gotten the best of me, it’s now open, and I will now find out if bourbon Loki is playing a trick to create another brown waterfall or if this will be brown nectar to be utilized in daily bourbon communion. The nose starts with a chocolate covered toasted marshmallow followed by burnt orange peel and caramel cinnamon apple fritter then spices of nutmeg, cloves, and roasted chestnuts with medium-high ethanol burn. The taste is a medium mouthfeel starting with a rich caramel along with chocolate covered toasted marshmallow followed by fruits of apple and orange before the spice of a Sichuan peppercorn takes over and lingers before finally transitioning to barrel spices of cinnamon, clove, nutmeg and light oak with a high ethanol burn. The finish is medium length with toasted marshmallow, walnuts, graham cracker, chocolate, orange, caramel apple and light oak spice. Surprisingly this was not a trick, but rather an enjoyable bourbon that the toasted finish has helped polish out the flaws found in normal Nulu. This isn’t a complex whiskey, but a well-executed young bourbon that adds a toasted marshmallow flavor to traditional bourbon flavors and is easy to drink, but won’t result in any wow factor. I’ll no longer be shunning this one and enjoy it until it’s empty, but for the $80 this would have cost, I would rather just pick up another MGP like George Remus ($40) or anything from the Belle Meade range ($40-$80).