This is powerful stuff, if didn't want to drink it you could always run your car on it. Bottled at 64% the nose has fruit, cinnamon and some cereal notes, perhaps corn or rye. Without water the alcohol dominates at first but with some water some other flavors come through, especially rye, chocolate milk and caramel, spices and cayenne pepper come through on the finish. But lurking behind all those spices there is also a fruity note, like a mandarin orange or even mango. A long finish, really long. I liked it with water. Powerful and not cheap, it as much a biofuel as a drink without water, definately not for the beginner. This one is a "creeper" and the more I drank the more I liked it.