So, despite my mostly disappointed experience with Orphan Gifted Horse, this bottle of 20 Year Old Barterhouse has been staring at me from atop the bar challenging me to redeem the Orphan Barrel/Diageo brand. So, I caved in last night and popped the cork on another $90 "rescued" bourbon. This offering comes in at 90.2 proof and is a nice, roasted caramel color while giving off hints of dark, roasted almonds and sweet, maraschino cherries on the nose. There isn't much oak to be found. That's kind of unexpected if this stuff has been truly resting for 20 years. On the tongue, there's some cherry again along with a quite a lot of spicy, peppery oak. That's it, though. I expected a lot more complexity for sure. Even the finish is a bit one-trick pony: bitter burn. I was hoping for some vanilla or something. Nada. Overall, it's better than Gifted Horse, but not by much and it certainly isn't worth $90+. At this point, the only Orphan I've had that lived up to the hype was the 22 year old Rhetoric. Good luck finding that, much less for a reasonable price. 3.25 stars. Keep sippin' elsewhere my friends...