Nose: initial pour smelled like a wine. Nose after resting: wine nose has diminished, is now balanced with the whiskey as a counterpoint for attention. Strawberry, lemon, blueberry, pepper, baking spices, red grape or grape gummy, vanilla cookies , milk and chocolate milk, orange candy, butterscotch, honey Taste, begins with a buttery, strawberry, butterscotch, black pepper, vanilla cookies, caramel blast, now blackberry vinous, back to a butterscotch and caramel, chocolate milk finish. Complex, unique, and interesting