On the nose I get cherry, cinnamon, and ethanol. On the palate it's stagg, it's hot, it's sweet, and it has a warming finish. This batch seems to lack the complexity of others, I will agree from another reviewer that it reminds me of hotter eagle rare. Cinnamon overtakes the sweetness and potential other flavors and it transitions to a woody note. Not my favorite stagg (jr) batch, but it'll drink.