I definitely enjoyed this more than their #1 bourbon. Most of my whiskey-loving friends focus on bourbon foremost, and I'm finally catching up to them, trying all the flagship brands. After all, my family's been gone from Scotland for so long now that real scots just chuckle when I say I feel an ancestral kinship with their whisky. Anyway, this one's solid throughout--peppery sweet notes on the nose, with a slight hint of dry tartness somewhere. Medium body, peppery, vanilla and caramel, some faint hints of candy back there someplace. Not quite the black-pepper bomb that usually makes me jump up and down when I drink rye, but this is something I'll happily order all the time.
