Age: 11-year

Proof: 129.74

Bottle count: 132

Tasting Notes: The nose is all sorts of perfumed oak and spices. Slight bit of mesquite at first, there’s also some beautiful caramel, honey, even grape candy notes before a lovely presence of oak.

The palate begins with a kiss of deep smokiness itself, but after a short time grows thicker, slower, with more pronounced yet elegant spices and plenty of antique oak. Continued sips grow a silky caramel, but never forgetting these beautiful oak notes that really make you slow down and take notice.

The finish returns to a flip of drying tobacco and smokiness before long lasting drying oak. The whole sipping experience gives elevated, LE-type profile. I’m not ashamed to admit this is one of my favorite picks in some time.