Rating: 11/23 N: Some wood leading into cinnamon, a bit of tartness, mineral, some alcohol. Not complex or particularly good, but not bad. P: Sadly, the more I drink of this, the less I like it. There's some nice cinnamon and heat and it doesn't have any artificial flavors, but it's just so light and laden with minerals. The palate is better than the nose though, with more sweetness, richness, and fullness, with a caramel element coming in. The complexity is minimal, but not totally absent. F: Mineral, cinnamon, wood, some of that tartness, maybe a dash of sweetness. Nothing memorable here, but nothing actively bad either. I find it kind of hard to figure out what to do with this. To me, this has fallen onto the wrong side of the value proposition now. I used to think of it a fairly one-note but solid, but now I'm seeing its weaknesses coming through more and more. This is far inferior to the likes of Wild Turkey 101 and Elijah Craig Small Batch, and I think I'll be buying those instead in the future. I'd personally probably still take this over Early Times, but not by much and I can well see why many would go the other way. I think I have to go with an 11 for this now.