Have been wanting to try this for a while but wasn’t sure if it was worth the price. Decided to pull the trigger for my little vacation getaway knowing that I’d have people over who were bourbon fans. Nose: on initial whiff, very light and airy. Definitely smell the bourbon barrels it was sitting in, some oak, honey, butterscotch, and vanilla. I get faint cooked fruits, apple pie, flat cola. Palate: the oak comes through predominantly, dissipating into a nice sweet vanilla/ honey finish, there are lingering flavors of spice and white pepper. Leaves a bit of bitter aftertaste I’m assuming comes from the new oak. Mouthfeel: there isn’t too much here on the finish. Lots of spice upfront that doesn’t turn into much. It’s a bit dry but not too much happening elsewhere than on the tongue. It’s definitely a very interesting bourbon... I mean scotch. It almost starts out scotch and ends bourbon-y. Most people don’t know what to do with it because it doesn’t know what to do with itself, but I can appreciate it for its attempts to bridge the gap. I don’t hate it, but im not madly in love with it, but I’d definitely buy again to share with my bourbon drinker friends and not for personal consumption.