This is the first of these LE's I've bought. Their core offering has been pretty meh, but with word Nancy Fraley has been working with them, I'm excited. Nose - The first thing that really jumps out is a dusty corn and nutty element, very much making me think of a younger beam, perhaps a bakers or a knob creek 9ish year (well actually those NAS ones). Or you know bookers if bookers weren't terrible :) Then comes a very pleasant sweetness that I would without knowing there's finishing associate with really well aged older bourbons. That antique food finishing and intense brown sugar and candied oak. But more nosing starts to bring out almost a fresh rain over fall leaves with baking spices and rock candy. if not clear, there's peanuts on here as well. There's a pie crust here, heavy cinnamon and brown sugar on it, but yet balanced with the dough not letting the cinnamon bite the nostrils. Taste - While the nose is really something the taste takes a bit of a step back towards 7 year old bourbon. It's sweet but not deep or rich. The mouth feel isn't much to speak of. It however is explosive in total flavor. That sweet a bit thin upfront then gets spicy and oaky and peanuty and it bites pretty nice and hard on the finish. That finish mind you is really long and lingers. It's so much of a beam or perhaps a really nutty heaven hill kind of experience, but those armagnac casks are adding depth to finish, adding more sweetness and adding more mellow fruits. The armagnac is also responsible for a sweetness up front big time. But it seems that this one needed 3 more months in the finishing casks and another year or two in the bourbon barrels. 100 bucks? I have to say, yeah this is worth about that, but you'd want it for 75. Overall I'm at a 2.5 here. But I'm debating going a lot higher. There's just something off for me. I think this just needs more age or more proof. But it's honestly pretty dang good as it is. And thus 2.5, this is about an 85-86 in my book. And at 100 bucks that's not bad.