Nose is soft but still has pear, orange, barrel char, a healthy amount of oak and almost a melon-like quality. Watermelon and cantaloupe come to mind and then cupcake sweetness. The palate is much better than I assumed. It has a light spice but low heat. Immediately a nice oak not quite baseball glove leather but not quite heavily oak or tannic oak either. The mouthfeel is somewhere between chewy and syrupy but not quite either. Candied oak and coconut candy, dried dark fruits of prune and raisin with a plump boozy coating, something that reminds me of Juicy Fruit gum that grows more of that vanilla cake, perhaps more almond as it lingers. The finish is medium length and semi dry. While it doesn’t taste like banana to me, it does have this warm, dense, banana bread characteristic. Walnut, banana cakiness, light cinnamon and brown sugar and a spritz of orange zest to kind of add this quickness in the finish.