Very sweet nose. Lots of vanilla, sweet cinnamon, brown sugar, molasses. There's definitely some savoriness too with leather, tobacco, shoe polish, and some barrel char going on. Palate shows slow heat, but it's there, and not overwhelming. Brown sugar and molasses, vanilla, snickerdoodle cookies, leather, spearmint, and it kinda finishes a bit like the way an old bookstore smells. Very smooth and mouth coating. Freakin great stuff. Wow, what a potent bourbon with an astronomically high ABV that is much more approachable for me than maybe expected with just a few drops of water. Proof of what proper storage does over 12 years in Kentucky. Beautiful stuff.