Nose is very sweet with maple, cocoa, banana, cola, lime, walnuts, and oak. A little more ethanol than you would expect for a sub 100 proof. Palate matches the nose pretty well with more maple, caramel, light banana, vanilla, cola, and lime/citrus. Oak is present in the palate which shows the 10 year age in a positive way. Finish is rye spice, saddle leather, and oak tannins, fading to a nice flan like character. I do love a finish that morphs, however it is ridiculously short and bone dry. Mouthfeel is prickly. While the above may not sound like a home run, the whole is greater than the sum of it’s parts and it comes together nicely with a decent level of uniqueness. I grossly over paid for this at $99.99 so I can’t judge it on that. Is it worth the retail of $70? Probably not. Don’t get me wrong this is actually a fine whiskey, but more of a $40-50 bottle for me and thus, not a rebuy.