After trying Buffalo Trace for the first time (one of my wife's orders on a recent flight), it may just have earned its place as my house "well" bourbon. It definitely favors the lighter, sweeter side of the spectrum, with scents of coconut cream, a bit of toffee, corn, and the slightest hint of oak on the nose. It's easy drinking and tasty, with a bit of Asian pear sweetness followed by a corn pudding, brown sugar glazed donut combo. The finish is where some spice and oak presence asserts itself more fully, and it's long and warming. The ghost of that Asian pear also might ruffle the curtains a bit at the end. Hard to imagine a bourbon at $25 that beats this one; I certainly can't name one.