Filling this out from tour and bracket days years back... When I was a novice, I thought this was a 4.5* whiskey. It is smooth, forgiving, leathery, strong in vanilla and oak tannins. Now that I've rounded out my first hundred, I can see this is well done local still job but not my top shelf. Appreciate it as such. Drink local and make this one into one hell of an old fashioned. [10.22.20] As a side note, I'm drinking this whiskey set in a cabernet barrel for secondary aging after Watershed's 1st "garage sale". Fantastic and I'll have trouble ever buying the original again.