Messing around in the new app - tried to use flavor tags but they don’t do this justice. Wound up pouring a few from a friends bottle while talking music theory and plucking guitar strings. To be clear - I know little to no music theory despite 13 years of violin and an on-off relationship with guitar. Obsessed (a habit/fault of mine) with understanding chord structure, I would like to offer some half baked parallels. Most chords can stand on 3 (or even 2 notes). If you want to create tension or get a little spicy then a 4th note can jazz things up. Speaking of jazz - why stick with a major or minor diatonic scale when swashbuckling pentatonic scales and stealthy modes can make schizophrenia sound like it makes sense. This whiskey does all of that. The 8-9y rye is hardly young. Unsure if the dustier/attic qualities come from the rye or the 14y bourbon. This exudes age and complexity in a way that leaves you thinking this could be a barley legal rye (Russel’s Rye single barre style - but aged). No doubt the price is steep but this is on my list to Santa. The fruit, spice, dark sugars and long finish check all of my boxes - holiday or year-round.