When I first bought this bottle, I was not a fan. It may have been because of my few month hiatus from whiskey, but the wood on this was a bit too extreme for me. 3 months later and half a bottle in, I’ve decided to give it it’s fair review. The nose on this reminds me of being at a Christmas tree lot that sells cookies and hot chocolate. It’s sweet smelling but there’s a distinct smell of cut wood. Nose: brown sugar, molasses, musty pine wood, cinnamon, pepper, fruit cake. Taste: starts with subtle dried fruit, flat coke, the mid picks up with sharp wood/ pepper, bitter cigar ash. 3 months in and I’m still not that big of a fan. I enjoy it because it does feel challenging but the beginning of the taste doesn’t match the end. I wish there was more there of the fruity start that carry’s over into the mid, but it goes away to quickly and is replaced by the wood/pepper that lingers to the end.