Friendly, approachable, gentle sweet apple and pear nose, even if a bit thin. A few drops of water sweetens it further and opens to apple blossom. Malty cereal with well integrated grain. Cedar and faint honey that follows to the palate with vanilla, a distant hint of smoke and a noticeable slight copper-metallic note. Finish is full, zesty and drying with orange spice and oak. Surprisingly long. Surprisingly good. Surprisingly, one I should never have turned my nose up at. (Let that be a lesson to you!) Dry glass: sweet beeswax and winter spices.