Rating: 15/23 N: Banana bread is the core here. I get sweet banana, baking spices, and oily, bitter walnut. It smells delicious. Little bits of vanilla and wood, but really it's like smelling banana bread. P: Soft, mellow, sweet. Baking spices with restrained banana. Medium viscosity. Hints of minerality, but not much. The spices have a really nice rich sweetness, with occasional hints of chocolate. It's shockingly like drinking banana bread. There isn't a tremendous amount of complexity, but the balance is terrific and it's super easy to drink. And it isn't like it's one-note at all. F: It retains a soft, cake-like sweetness, with a bit more grain showing through. Hints of banana. Not a lot happening here, but it's just what I'd expect from banana bread in whiskey form. - Conclusion - I've never ben much a fan of wheaters before. I mean, William Larue Weller is amazing, but that's a serious exception. I usually find that they just taste kind of boring. This changes that by delivering a specific profile with an enjoyably soft drinkability. This is solid competition for Elijah Craig Small Batch (15/23) and I think I prefer this a hair because of its greater nuance. Still, the Elijah Craig is more hedonistic. I then need to compare this with Russell's Reserve 10 (15-16/23). Now this is more hedonistic, less refined offering. The Russell's seems closer in quality to this than the Elijah Craig does. If I had to choose between this and the Russell's, it would be tough, but I'd favor the Russell's. Considering that, I think that this is a 15. Still, I like the banana bread flavor here a lot. It just ends up being kind of too soft. I can imagine going up to a 16 for this, but for now I'm going with a 15. For quite a while, I really thought that I was going to be giving this a 16. And it's almost there! I love that banana bread, but this just ins't quite good enough to earn that 16. As much as I like how this has nailed a single concept, it isn't as good as many drams that have combined disparate components in interesting ways. Thank you @Milliardo for sharing this one!