Ok for the price. It smells great, rolling aroma of vanilla with a light hit of fruit. The taste is rough, dare I say unfinished. It's very spicy. I get a slight cinnamon with vanilla. You can really taste that ash barrel. Then the very raw whisky taste hits you. Tastes like a premature spirit. Will make a great mix whisky, but I won't enjoy it on its own. Consumed at room temp. Made strait