Tasted neat from a grappa copita after several minutes of rest. This is a "sample" from a DTC subscription received as a gift. The nose of this whiskey is very shy. Faint apple skins, cooked cereal, ethanol. On the palate this is peppery and sour simultaneously. There's a bit of dried apple, an echo of jalepeno against a background of cereal. I'm finding it hard to tease out any specific flavors, but more importantly I'm not really encouraged to go searching. This is a pretty unremarkable whiskey. I need to be fair to this one. It reminds me of the Suntory Toki Japanese whiskey. I found that one also a bit on the boring side sipped neat. It was better with soda in a highball and I suspect this may be also, but I'm unlikely to find out as I don't see a bottle in my future.