Quickly revisiting this at 25% left in the bottle. This isn't rye. Full stop. Just like Templeton rye isn't rye (confession - I like Templeton for what it is) and Casamigos Reposado or Casa Azul tequila isn't tequila (flame me if you must) - and in that statment I mean that these don't taste very much like taste standards of the category would suggest. They are sweeter. They are almost caricatures. They may be tasty, but they are not representative and, to me this doesn't taste like rye. I'd also say it really can't be used in a cocktail like another rye. Definitely not in a Manhattan. Not in an Old Fashioned. Maybe in a sour for someone with no taste for whisky... This is too sweet to be considered a good rye. It tastes kinda okay at first. But then it becomes cloying and thick and uninteresting. I'm deducting half a point from my first impression. Getting through the rest of this bottle will be a chore. I think I'll finish it off by sipping it with soda in a highball. Hard pass on another.