To start off my Buffalo Trace series, I have a single barrel pick from the Drammers club. The nose starts with powdered sugar over sautéed cinnamon apples and butterscotch candy followed by milk chocolate covered pecans then light fruit notes of cherry and orange peel that transitions to spearmint and very light baking spices with low ethanol burn. The taste is a thin mouthfeel starting with sour apple before a mild bitter pepper spice that slowly fades to cocoa nibs followed by light fruits of maraschino cherries and orange zest that transitions to spearmint and light baking spices with low ethanol burn. The finish is short with cocoa nibs, sautéed cinnamon apples, orange push pop, spearmint and light baking spices. Overall, this is an easy sipper but it’s quite dull. Picking out the notes outside of apple and cinnamon is difficult as they are very light which results in this tasting like a watered-down whiskey that is inoffensive but also lackluster. At the price of $50, this seems priced too high and I'd much rather just pick up a WT 101 as I find it a better whiskey, but my palate tends to find Buffalo Trace products underwhelming outside of their Blanton's Gold and Stagg Jr.