Dark copper color and quite sticky on the glass... It definitely smells like a buffalo trace product... Lots of vanilla, baking spice, green apple, barn must , and dry oak. Soft and sweet upfront, it dries out quickly and is surprising in terms of how it flips from sweet and soft to dry and oaky... Comes back on the finish wity milk a milk chocolatey finish... Its all its cracked up to be. Nothing here really jumps out, yet everything one would seek in a bourbon is here.