Elegant, yet robust on the nose, perfumed, with milk chocolate raisins, dried fruit, burnt sugar, ginger, and a touch of saddle soap. Complex on the palate, too, Distiller’s Select is fragrant and fruity, with raspberries, chamomile and ginger. The finish displays lingering vanilla notes and peppery oak. This could almost be mistaken for a Cognac until that trademark Bourbon vanilla finish kicks in, though the vanilla is altogether more restrained than in some of Woodford Reserve’s rivals