At the price, it's so, *so* much better than it really has to be. $25 in Canada puts it in the same price range as a few bottom-shelf Canadian blended whiskies, and it's almost embarrassing how much better EW Black Label is than any of them (not to mention the standard Jim Beam White or even Jack Daniels, both of which it blows away in quality). Nose/taste is cream soda, grape drink, vegetal, musty. Creamed corn, cinnamon. Vanilla, citrus, peanut butter, wood char. Faint cherry.