If I don't make it through this pour, tell my family....I kinda sorta don't hate them. Nose - This is interesting. Fruity notes come through, vanilla candy, sweet but not rich...it's good. But it's as if there's just something missing. Did they chill filter this? Starting to get earthy elements, corn, oak...touch of smoke. This has really all those nice buffalo trace notes but there's something off here. Taste -This is heavy corn stagg jr with a missing layer or 12 of depth and there's this sweet almost what I'd want to say malt but I guess corn whiskey deal. Bit of chocolate, not good chocolate. Everytime I start to get wonderful bourbon...I get that corn and muted weird sweetness. Good spice (wood). Good light chocolate chew notes. Ethanol is here and there but it isn't unruly. Slight metallic note. This is surprisingly well put together and well made bourbon at what is likely 4 years old. You can completely tell there's a lack of age here, but it doesn't drink any younger than some bad bottles of blantons. It holds water reasonably well. All and all for cheap go for it. But why go this cheap? I'm torn on what the point of this is for geeks here, but if you're looking to save some bucks. I can't lie. It's good for that purpose. 1.5 stars. For those not used to my reviews, under 1 star is my way to say it's complete trash. 1 star is not bad. 2 is average. 4 is epic. 5 is in that upper tier of the best whisky I've had, and I've had a lot, but I need to adjust it. I'm debating going higher. Really truly didn't think this would score this high. I'm scoring this with a lot of massive disappointments for 100, this is 17-25 bucks (up to 30 for some secondary). This is much more lacking complexity, depth, and has some meh elements but it isn't bad at all. Other whiskies like this have bigger bolder more impressive elements combined with complete failures in my review database.