My bottle had a bad cork and tastes like you dumped a tiny tiny drop of eagle rare into a really bad bottle of buff trace that was over-oxodized for many years. Personally recommend avoid, but I'm sure if your cork isn't trash it's good. The piece of cork in question was half the size of a small pencil shaving, and took many minutes of holding the liquid to the light to see--odd bottle shape. It was awful right out of the bottle so no chance to save it with a strain into decanter.