One of my hardest bottles to rate. When I put this in blinds with my other top barrel proof bourbons ... sometimes it finishes a ways down the list, but often it will win and beat some absolute hitters. Nose: Vanilla, spicy, dark Juicy Fruit with some black cherry. Like Juicy Fruit gum with some light spice and cinnamon. Sometimes I can find the artificial banana in the background and sometimes I get a BBQ note. Flavor: Starts very sweet, but with a hot, charred, tannic oak note and sometimes some cherry. Then gets spicy and peppery. Finally, a burst of cherry and some artificial banana shows up and then spicy again at the back-end. Body: Thick, coating, and very buttery rich. Finish: Dark caramel, butter, spice, black cherry, artificial banana, dark and dried fruits, tannic and drying oak, leather, dark chocolate. Artificial banana really shows on the finish.