This is a very high proof bottle of juice, but you can only tell on the nose. It is smooth and dangerously easy to sip. The nose gives you a lovely gentle toffee with a sweet spice and gently browned toast. You smell a bit longer and you get some leather and the ethanol starts to sting the nostrils so you know its strength. The palate is smooth, from start to finish it warms your whole mouth, fails to burn even a little, completely warm. Those spices from the nose linger, almost as if you are eating white bread, butter and cinnamon sugar. Very soft and smooth with a long finish that ends with some stronger spice almost to remind you that this particular bird is a a hunter, a bird of prey, one that hunts at night and leaves no trace of its presence. *I revisited this last week and now I get a funky banana at the very end... I like it a lot. If you find this and its in your bourbon budget. Buy it.