Cyclone Jim Single Barrel Tennessee Bourbon

My initial tasting: Fruity and tart aroma, like stone fruits, cantaloupe, oranges, and sour cherry beer. Also a bit of char, lime, maple syrup, oak, ear wax, and earth. Very unusual so far. Sweet and intense on the palate, with caramel, brown sugar, peach, white sugar, cinnamon, cherry, melon, charred wood, and more sugar. Potent, artificially sugary sweet, and unbelievably fruity and tart on the nose. Very atypical. I'm uncertain about this. I disliked it and rated it 1.5. I believe much of that was my own perception, as on the second tasting. While I still agree with many of the notes and flavors, I no longer find the nose quite so fruity or tart, and while it is quite sweet, it's not quite as artificially so. Now it's more citrus, leather, cantaloupe, char, vanilla, and oak on the nose; cinnamon, wood, white pepper, sugar, char, cherry, and cantaloupe on the palate; finishing with red hots and dark chocolate. Still not great, but considerably better this time. It drinks quite hot for 110 proof and 12 years old. An odd situation indeed...

Tasted at the clandestine bar mentioned by another user. Sour on the nose with subtle vanilla and oak. The palate is surprisingly intense with notes of red hots and black pepper.