Mild and delicious and spicy with none of the intensity noted in the description here on Distiller. It's like a cinnamon bun, peppered with... erm, pepper, in a whiskey! But there is only 1/20th of the bottle left so probably much of the biting alcohol evaporated? That will be my strategy if I buy this bottle -- leave it open a day or two!! Then, VOILÀ! Perfection!