A rich, golden honey-amber color.
Dried and ripe fruits, such as yellow raisins, clementine skin, peach, and dried mango, along with notes of honey, vanilla bean, and caramel.
Palate is soft, mouth-filling, and gently creamy, but quickly becomes nutmeg and pepper-spicy and a little nutty, with both the satisfying bitterness of hazelnut skin and round fatness of hazelnut meat. It feels plush and a little slick on your tongue, but snaps like a cracker into a dry exit.
Finish lies in the sprightly spice and drying tannin, likely from the first-use ex-bourbon casks in the blend. It finishes tidy and dry—which only serves to make you want more.