Remember back in middle school, your science teacher would take the class out on a field trip to collect specimens to view under a microscope? You’d walk by a pond, fill a test tube, and bring it back to see what’s in there that’s invisible to the naked eye. Under the 1000x view of the microscope, you’d find a whole world in there. Amoebas. Paramecium. Tons of other Protozoa. Every where you look, it’s something different. And changing every time you even look in the same place. This is like that microscopic world. One of the few whiskeys I’ve had that changes at every aroma. I’m getting herbs and green apples on the nose. I put it down, come back to it a few seconds later, and now I’m getting leather , tabacco and oak. The palette isn’t quite the ride as the nose, unfortunately. It’s apples and caraway seeds. Really a well done collaboration. Two ryes, made two different ways. And the first rye made by Dickel as well. Unfortunately we don’t know what percent is Dickel or Leopold, but honestly, not sure it matters. Thanks immensely to @ctbeck11 for a generous pour. Around my neck of the woods, this is $100…and at that price, it’s a definite buy. This is one of those that you don’t want to rush into tasting, but just nose the kaleidoscope of aromas. That itself is worth the price of admission.