N: Undeniably a JD product, but certainly more grown up than Old No. 7. Many different iterations of banana: bananas cooked in brown sugar, banana bread, banana nut cereal, banana candy, and banana cooking over charcoal. There's also caramel, vanilla, oak, and orchard fruit. There's probably more, but it smells so good I'm just going in. P: Rich malt notes with smoke and oak char. Caramel, vanilla, cooked banana, brown sugar melting in a cast iron skillet, butterscotch, ginger, and black pepper. Bit of oak tannin leads to the finish, which brings lingering fresh banana, oak, bitter dark chocolate, and cooked brown sugar. I like Jack. I mean, I really like Jack, and this was a great surprise to me. But I've liked every iteration of it I've tried, which is many iterations now - all the ones I can find anyway. This is the best Jack I've had yet. Better than the single barrel. Better than the barrel proof. This takes the best parts of all of those, merges them all together, and adds some extra barrel notes on top. It's a beautiful whiskey. I have to agree with the official Distiller review: it's really too bad that this is rare and expensive and not as ubiquitous as the Old No. 7. But at least it comes in a liter bottle. _______ 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.)