Finally a fresh bottle of Bookers, these are hard to come by in my area, and a price under 90$$ is more than welcome. Mine tagged in right around 89, (big city inflation no doubt). On the nose, fresh orchard notes are abundant, green apple and pear, but "fresh" is the key. A bit of warm sweet brown sugar and caramel notes peak through. Full proof is the best and that's what you get with Bookers, I've never had a bad one, but I suppose there is always a first time. The orchard notes lead but give way to the very strong spice rack.. "cinnamon, allspice, clove, nutmeg", yes, that's accurate. Almost a bit of a high rye aspect without the common rye dill, the sugars follow warm and sweet, brown sugar and caramel, not really very unusual for Mr. Noe, and that's one of the reasons I bank on this bottle delivering. Probably less appealing than some of the fresh "baked" batches that have scored so highly, but still so hardy and even tempered in delivery. One of the easiest to sip full proofs you will find. A newly opened bottle with just a snit already taken off the top, I'm probably just going to enjoy this one and not sock it away. Still waiting to be disappointed by the simple wood box, for any hard core Bookers enthusiast, it's an easy recommend. Cheers!