Taste: 2 oz., neat in glen cairn, then 3 drops water. Sample provided by Steve Bricker (thanks, Steve) Nose (4.75) Wonderful fruit punch on the nose. I get fruit cocktail flavors of cherry, peach, and pear. The pear is more dominant. It is not a sickly sweet canned smell, but more of a fruit cocktail that you might prepare in the summer after carving out a watermelon. It does though leave me asking if this is going to taste more like a cordial and less like a whiskey. Palate: (5.0) Those fruit flavors develop nicely with a good even warming. Even at 122.9 proof this does not have the slightest of burn. My fears of too sweet are gone. There is a good strawberry jam-like taste here, and a beautiful richness similar to what I enjoy about Master's Keep Revival. I am not a big fan of some of the wine finishes because sometimes neither can stay in its lane properly. Both the Masters Keep and this marry them exquisitely. Finish: (4.75) Decadent is the word that comes to mind. It is like the finish you get from a world class chocolate assortment buttery strawberry nougat. Might have given it 5 if it held on a bit longer. Might be even worth that in taste alone. Overall: I liked Barrell 19. I heard great things about Dovetail and none of those things are wrong! It has a delicious fruit and jam flavor to it without becoming a bourbon soaked in rum and wine. The name embodies this, as like in woodworking, the finished casked whiskeys "dovetailed" and joined beautifully to form one exquisite piece from a few. This will be my next bottle, even at the 99.99 sticker price. If there was a knock it might be the expense here. A hefty price to pay for a blended whiskey of different ages, but the juice speaks for itself.