I tried my first Blood Oath bourbon while out with business partners at a nice steak house this past week. Granted, it was served neat in a whiskey glass... for something in this league I would have preferred a Glencairn. Spicy cinnamon and vanilla make their appearance very known on the nose, with a slightly fruity edge. But not so much tart red fruit... more like sweet and soft peaches and pears. The taste follows the nose with tongue prickling cinnamon and a hint of canned peaches with quite a "full" mouthfeel. The finish on this one is loud. Spice and bitterness pull the taste off the sweet train. You get hits of dark cocoa powder that flourish into rye spice at the very end. This was a halfway decent bourbon but, perhaps because I'm scoring it against the hype and prices that Blood Oath bourbons command, I actually wasn't all that impressed. I haven't ruled out Blood Oath though, perhaps I just started with the wrong one?