Nose

Huge and ripe: barley sugar/spun sugar, apricot, lashings of vanilla, orange crème brûlée - but the alcohol gives your nose a right belt.

Palate

Perfumed with a floral lift. Imagine flowers encased in orange blossom honey. Hickory wood.

Finish

Treacle, but the alcohol blurs things.

Comment

A huge old-style mouthful but the high-strength masks much of the subtle complexities in what is a big-boned bourbon.