NAS version. Nose: Sweet, with brown sugar and Vanilla Coke with some oak in the background. Neat it starts off cloyingly sweet. Almost liquer-like. Vanilla, peanut butter, and oak. Spicy tingle on the mid-palate with a surprisingly smooth finish considering its higher proof. Despite a relatively thin mouthfeel, it leaves a nice coating of vanilla, mild cinnamon and oak. This was WAY too sweet for me. A splash did help some, but there are just too many other good choices in this price range for this to be a repeat buy. My dilemma is that this is so sweet, I don't know what to mix it with to make it palatable.