Neat. Neck pour. The nose is very nice. More subtle than I was expecting but patience opened it up. This experiment with the barrels is so interesting. It feels like I am simultaneously smelling the different staves and the different ages. Deep Oak comes through accompanied by a brightness I associate with younger whiskey. That deep oak comes through as both charred and a hint of the marshmallow note I associated with toasted barrels. Caramels, vanilla, coconut, peanut shells, and berries are coming through hard now. The more time I spend with this the more the volume of all the flavors on the nose are turning up. I could go at this one all day. Super creamy and thick on the tongue. Ah damn, this a top notch way to start a Friday night. On the tongue, I get this whip cream and vanilla pudding sweetness. On the taste it shoots darker immediately. Peanut butter, chocolate, marshmallow. Oak and a hint of cinnamon. It’s like making a s’mores with a peanut butter cup rather than just Hershey chocolate. The flavors last quite a while. The legs don’t bring additional flavors or change. It’s more like a song that tails off slowly turning down the volume. The peanut butter comes through more and more as time goes on. I’d even call it a creamy buckeye now. Such a good pour. I don’t recall a whiskey that I wanted to describe in such conflicting ways simultaneously. I just thought to myself “subtle flavor bomb.” How can a flavor bomb be subtle? Very nice job on this Four Gate.