Old bottle Nose: a lot of dried fruits! Old plums especially! Some spices and after a few sips, tangerine! Taste: sweet plum, oily and slightly sticky and then tangerine again! Aftertaste: short I couldn't get the vanilla taste like other people do but first sip is a lot of dried fruits and last sip I get the tangerine taste! Not as complex as some whisky but the fruitiness and smoothness of this cognac is why a fav among some old folks!