Tasting neat. Nice box packaging (dark red and cream lettering), and gold lettering sprayed on the standard MM bottle (might deserve better). Whisky is dark copper with modest coating legs in the glass. Nose is dry peanut shells and apricot, burnt sugar, and vanilla oak, slightly tannic. Burnt sugar, cherry, vanilla, and some tannic oak in the mouth. Savory, soft wheated whisky, but lacks a strong coating mouthfeel. Cherry fruit flavor (headed to cough syrup) grows in the finish along with lightly acrid burnt oak tannic flavor and a modest ethanol bloom for the 101 proof. Some pepper and baking spice, but that's definately background and muddled. Finish is thin feeling and rather short. And lightly acrid. An ice cube softens the burnt and acrid toward a softer sweeter fruitier taste, and shortens a short finish. Well, I expected a lot more given the Distiller Pro's review and high rating. Or my taster is just way off tonight. So I'm going to revisit this in a day or two. MM 101 shares a similar profile with the regular MM at 90 proof, and is an interesting tasting bridge of sorts to the MM Cask Strength at 113 proof ($55). The 101 is good--nothing wrong with any of their wheated and wooded whiskys of late--and at this higher proof it will make a better mixer in my Manhattan. But... a 94? And at $40? Nah.