So with the Private Select, Maker's allows the customer to decide on their own combination of staves. My local liquor store did this one, and here's how it looks. 3 Baked American Pure 2 4 Seared French Cuvee 1 Maker's 46 2 Roasted French Mocha 0 Toasted French Spice; bottle at 54.9% Nose: Brown sugar, maple, caramel pop out of the glass. Behind that are leather and cherry. Some mocha and tobacco notes. After some time in the glass I get toffee. Big oak and some cinnamon from the high ABV. No ethanol. Very good. Palate: Still brown sugar and caramel heavy. Vanilla and what I'll call a carrot cake note. Mocha and roasted nut. The mid palate manifests as major oak and baking spices. Clove, nutmeg, and a massive cinnamon kick. Once again, awesome. Finish: A bit of the carrot cake and black cherry persists from the palate until they are ultimately swept away by a tide of baking spices. Cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove. The oak note is a bit more bitter and astringent at this point but it's still a damn fine finish. Moderate to long. Damn fine pour right here. My local store, as always, has done me well with this one. I imagine that one might have a wildly different experience with this, depending on the stave selection. I'm a huge fan of the 46, and I'm surprised to see that I enjoyed this as much as I did considering the low percentage of 46 staves. At $70, it's far from cheap. Yet, considering this is a high-quality, heavy-hitting experimental product, it's worth the money. I'll give it a 4.5. Fine job here, Maker's.