Vanilla and oak on the nose. Tiny bit of caramel beneath, can be a bit heavy on the alcohol if you're not careful. There is a pretty noticeable apple juice lurking behind everything else. The notes have an interesting aspect of smelling like they're coming from something frozen or coming out of a freezer. It's not bad, just lends the nose a slightly watered down element while also smelling like it's super chilled. Hard to explain. The first taste is almost overwhelmingly salted peanuts in the shell. The salt and a bit of heat is hard to get past to detect anything else. The apple juice is clearly present just behind the salted peanuts with the sweet fruit taking the edge off the salt eventually. You're left with a fairly juicy note that sees some caramel creep in as the salt fades just enough to leave you picturing apple slices drizzled with salted caramel. On subsequent tastes the cycle basically repeats itself, just with slightly more oak being noticeable, particularly in the middle. The intense salty peanut quality stands up really well to coke (if you've never poured some salted peanuts into an ice cold coke and then drank it, you really should) but the price is just high enough for me to not go out of my way to get it just for mixing when it's not dynamic enough to drink neat--it just lands in a no-man's land space of price/enjoyment for me.