@ContemplativeFox agreed my friend.

Your review reminds me of my SiB CS pick of GB: super rich and woody, but without a ton of complexity. Over the past year, I have found that the complexity an balance in my bottle improved substantially and some chocolate came out, though the improvement hasn't been enough for me to call this a great value.

Sooo I’ve been seeing this bottle pop up in liquor stores that I frequent as of late and was eventually talked in to buying a bottle witch wasn’t hard because I’m a whiskey junkie . Anyways on with the reviews 5 years in the Texas heat will apparently leave you with ones of the darkest and sexy look juice I’ve seen !! I had already suspected that the first pour was going to have a heavy oak punch and boy did it’s wowzers expecting that I had a couple pour and figured to let is sit for a couple weeks and open up . I’m now on two weeks bottle open and there is still a heavy oak present but it has mild down . nose: has an oak and leather smell with spice and sarsaparilla . Taste : No surprise oak , leather, spice and some Carmel Finish was decent the oil if heavy and soak tongue well even got a slight butter taste . Even though it’s high proof at 133.9 it was surprisingly smooth , but it did lack complexity and wasn’t worth the price tag at $215 to $400 depending where you look. All in all I will say I did find myself wanting more and weirdly made some of my other collect taste a bit dual probably because of the heavy flavor there wasn’t much flavors but the ones that where there we very distinct and long lasting.