nose - Sweet corn, faint dust, oak, clay putty. Nothing interesting. You know that horrible candy corn stuff? This smells a bit like that. Taste - Starts sweet but quickly goes to funk, dirt, clay, putty, and harash alcohol (it's 100 proof only). This is horrible. Run from this crap. I don't know how they found such bad whisky to blend but my lord they did it. on sale for 40 for a 375 ml bottle!