The nose starts with gentle peanuts, vanilla, fruit salad and has an almost minty freshness to it. Wine sweetness emerges as the whiskey breathes along with some very pleasant sweet pipe tobacco. It’s surprisingly more mild than you would expect from this. The palate is mostly dry and fills all corners of the mouth with strong cinnamon and baking spices as peanut and vanilla is there in the background gradually coming out as the spice fades. It isn’t too chewy, as you start focusing on the emerging cognac sweetness starts to emerge with is subtle as best. As you swirl it, it becomes a bit smokey which compliments the other flavors very well. It again however, is all sadly too subtle. The finish is medium with a lingering spiciness in the corners of the mouth while tobacco smoke, cognac sweetness and a touch of vanilla come together to fade ever so gently.