The nose has a sweet rye grain scents with oak and vegetal smell probably from the teauila finish. Thos is a hot whoskey, more so than most others even at this high abv. I usually dont add water bit on this one o really needed to even though it didn’t help much. When i addad a few drops of water the tequila finish was more pronounced becoming noticeable on the finish. Pretty interesting whiskey, bit not one im going to be reaching for very often. Its more fun to know what a rye whiskey foniahed in tequila barrels tastes like.