Old Charter has recently lost its age statement (it's now "Old Charter No. 8"), and this is a review of the non-age stated version. Old Charter is based on the Buffalo Trace #1 (low rye) mashbill, and tastes like what it is: a low-cost bourbon pulled from the barrels that didn't make the cut for standard Buffalo Trace. Flavours are sour, sour cherry, nail polish remover, pecan, green apple, Sharpie. Soggy wood, basement. Caramel (caramel syrup), vanilla. Hot on the mouth, chalky, waves of sweet and dry. Crab apples, faint apple pie. Pine wood. Very "meh".