Nose is apple skins, toffee, Elmer's glue. A thousand plastic meatballs and a Stanzo brand fedora. A nice toasted barrel char in the nose. The taste is spicy (high rye?), toffee, black pepper. Definite prickly burn, a little salty too. Red pepper flakes, but like only a few. The peppery spice with the barrel char really pop. The finish is black pepper with spicy burn. A smooth, sweet toffee finish. Charcoal and oak-wood. Barrel char. It lights the palate on fire with it's spicy red pepperness.