Neat. Opened for a year or more. I loved this on my first taste but since then I have found a steady stream of 13-15 year store picks. I wondered how this stood up to time. And the nose is fantastic. Gosh. Classic nuttiness surrounded by ripe and gushing cherries. Deep deep oak and leather. A gray burnt caramel. French vanilla. I could spend a long time with this because it has a nose that plays all these beautiful notes. Goes between light bright notes to deep dark notes and everything in between. And of it is so rich and crisp. I don’t have a side by side but this does strike me as a level beyond the store pick barrels. I was honestly going into this thinking it was over priced in retrospect... maybe not? Super syrupy and thick. Brown sugar and oak on the tongue, so dark. Then uppercuts you with the cherry and vanilla. Leaves you with the burnt caramel, oak and a hint of the nuttiness. Drinks like 100 proof. The finish goes on and on and on. Yeah, this truly is a definitive Knob Creek experience. I recently finished my Knob Creek 2001 Batch 1 and that one lost its luster a bit as time went on. This one is special. $120 is a lot for a Knob Creek single barrel but I think a bottle of this is worth two store picks. It’s a step beyond them off memory.