Nose - pine tree, it's like nosing Christmas. I'm as always not an expert on spices but this is just anything you could imagine with a Christmas tree and Christmas spices that nutmeg and cinnamon and whatever else makes it up. Nice sweetness. Taste - SUPER spiced oak, vanilla, rye notes, Christmas cookies, some cookie dough, I wish I could nail this spice...not sure if it's ginger or something else. It's POWERFUL and there's a LOT of it. This is some young whisky but boy oh boy did they find some magical oak casks. I'm not a rye guy, full FULL disclosure. So I'm not getting another one of these, but I have really appreciated the uniqueness of this. This is going to be a niche product and it's going to kill it for people who want these notes. I'm going with a 2.0 as normally I'd score it lower because I think it's very niche but those who like it are going to really go for those oak and Christmas spice notes!