The nose has some heat, but quickly morphs into brown sugar, caramel, toffee, and some sawdust. There is some oaky barrel spice that manifests as perfume. Gets smoothed out by that kindergarten glue bottle I always get from the aromas in Bourbon. There is a little bit of unsalted peanut too. The taste is spicy wood, with black pepper. There is a carraway seed/pumpernickel bitterness, which I don't like in food, but I love in liquid form. Candied cinnamon: not like "Fireball™ whiskey," but like actual Fireball candies from the bulk food aisle. The sugars come off as a sleeve of English toffee cookies. Has a chewy consistency. With some ice you'll get a vanilla bean bloom and spicy sawdust. The finish, while pleasant, is surprisingly tame for 100 proof: there is a tobacco ash heat, and some more spicy oak. It's not an incredibly complex finish, but it sticks around pleasantly; the heat lingers at the end but doesn't hurt ya. Chocolate orange and potpourri spices. A very solid value, an example of Good (B-I-B) Government.