The aroma is strongly of rye spice, caramel, and red apple. There are hints of herbs, corn meal, pear, and smoke. Tasting it has a traditional herbal rye taste with rye bread undertones, but it develops more into a carraway and cheap bourbon with a finish of fruit and well done rye bread. It tasted cheap and young with nail polish remover notes and a lack of aged barrel flavor. I feel like I got my hopes up far too high for this one. Everyone seems to tout it as one of the best affordable ryes, but after drinking so much Wild Turkey 101 Rye for the same price, I felt very dissapointed. Wild Turkey is lacking the nail polish remover taste and is certainly much older.