This is not your typical Bourbon, it’s more a mixer, it’s says right on the bottle it’s mixed with “Dark Cherry and Bourbon Vanilla Beans” and the suggestion for serving is with coke. When it’s drank with coke I find it quite tasty. It’s a take off of the drink St. Elmo’s Steakhouse serves. I guess more than anything it “partial pre-mixed cocktail” add coke and voi’la you perfectly mixed St. Elmo’s cocktail. So if I am grading this as a bourbon not so much, as a “partial per-mixed cocktail” not bad.