N: Sweet corn, sawdust, oak, and soap. There's a syrupy red fruit. Dashes of banana and citrus here and there. Feels like there's some other good stuff in here, but hard to pull it apart. But it is not a particularly dynamic nose. P: Oaky with chocolate and banana. Dark chocolate bitter at the front of the mouth, but plenty red fruit sweetness at the sides - interesting contrast. Caramel, toffee, vanilla, and cherry. Finish brings red fruit, dark chocolate, oak, vanilla, bit of allspice, and mild chili pepper heat. This is a good step up over the small batch, but it's still sort of a par for the course BIB. It's not really special, I mean. I'd probably prefer Knob Creek 9 to this - they're certainly competitive, at least. And I guess that makes it hard to understand why this is so hard to find and frequently gets a markup. Anyway, at retail it's a reasonable value, but I still think it's maybe $5-10 overpriced (to put it more in line with the KC9). But I may also just be in the camp that finds the Barton profile unimpressive. So, YMMV. _______ Please come join a bunch of regular Distiller reviewers are chatting spirits in real time on Discord: https://discord.gg/4nfePCdyKM. (If the link is expired, post a comment and I will post a new one.)