Nose is pretty bright and brassy with peach, pine, citrus zest, cedar, white pepper, honey, vanilla icing, and gingerbread. Slight vitamin/mineral aroma. Unconventional. Ethanol continuously bothersome, showing some youth. Palate brings forth much from the nose, particularly the gingerbread, vanilla icing, and peach notes, along with toffee, cotton candy, rye spice, nutmeg, praline, and green apple. MGP-like in profile. The cedar/pine becomes a more pronounced oak. Quite well balanced but lacing in complexity. Finish turns spicy and dry with black peppercorn, leather, cinnamon, oak, clove, and tea leaf. Definitely has a bit of a bite to it. There’s a hint of a mineral note (I see you, Dickel!) but it’s actually enjoyable. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, and walks the line between creamy and grainy, managing to be neither. Hard to rate as there is definite quality here, I favor a bit of a darker profile. At $50, this could certainly be someone’s mid-tier whiskey rebuy, just not mine.