Nose is bright, fruity, cherries, oaky, walnuts, a good bit of rye spice, leather, a little mint on the end. Taste is not very sweet, maybe a little burnt caramel, very dry, a good bit of oak and nutty bitterness, spiciness comes through but the fruit and sweetness is gone. Bitterness and tingly spice remains on the palate for a medium length.