Breaking Bourbon's ratings go by barrels. They do halves and full, not quarters. I like their ratings. They seem tough but fair. Dickel BiB, this one, I believe, got 3.5 barrels, which is "Well above average." 4 Barrels is "Very good." When I tasted this bottle, I couldn't help thinking very good+. Thus my 4.25 barrel rating here. Dickel BiB got a high rating on Whisky Advocates Top 20. It's also done well in getting a A on Drinkhacker. For this reason, this aggregate of solid reviews, I asked my wife to pick me up a bottle when she was in Nashville this past week. She also got me a bottle of Chattanooga Cabernet Cask Finish, but I haven't opened that yet. This one, this was the first to be opened. And it's very, very good. I'm surprised at just how much I liked this. Straight off the bat, nosing this, I get cocoa powder heavily. There's a chocolate mustiness. It's a dark chocolate rather than milk, with a red fruit sweetness. Mostly cherries. I don't have a lot of experience with Dickel so the, um, Flintstone's vitamin thing I hear associated with it is not familiar with me. Mainly the fruit flavor is cherry. What this reminds me of a great deal is Knob 12. This is a 13-year, both are 100 proof, but this is bonded and that is not. Still, there's a great deal of similarity. Underlying the cocoa powder and cherry are touches of leather and oak. It's a bourbon after all. It's sweet, very little spice. It's not insanely complex, but the flavor is full, with maybe just a little banana mixed in with the cherry, reminding you of Jack or Old Forester, and maybe that banana tinge is what makes this different from Knob 12, despite the similarities. I can't remember what I rated Knob 12 and can't be bothered to look it up now, but these are in the same ballpark where I believe what pushes this up is simply the reality that they don't sell this in my neck of the woods and thus, this is special. This was a gift, and it feels like a gift, and I'm treasuring it as if it were a gift, which it is. I'm always excited when I get a whisky gifted to me that I can't get regularly. I'm always tempted to save it. I'm always tempted with limited editions. This one says Fall 2008 as the distilling season. My wife and I first hooked up Fall 2007, so this whisky is almost as old as our union. Kind of cool. Kind of interesting. Kind of comforting to know that something this good came out of 2008 and that something that good came out of 2007. Keep it going. I'd pick this up again in a heartbeat. And I'd pick her up again in a heartbeat too. It's a good gift.