Taste - Sweet creamy vanilla caramels, hint of red hots sweet and cinnamon spice tingle, light oaky bitterness like that of an apple stem. Finish - Cinnamon spice gradually fades, but lingers in the back, lightly artifical sweet barrel-aged vanilla infused simple syrup. Score - 75/100 Final Thoughts - Has a pleasant nose, amazingly soft for a 100 proof bonded bourbon. A tiny bit hot on the palate with a creamy sweetness that starts out nice, but sadly transitions to a splenda-like sweet. Sadly this has a great front, but can't seem to deliver to the finish as the sweetness turns to an artificial sweetener which I'm not a huge fan of. I'm not sure I'd grab this as something to sip neat, but I can see it as a cheap mixer that will hold up well in drinks that aren't very spirit forward like a Kentucky Mule or whiskey sour.