My dad, Mark, on Frey Ranch Straight Bourbon:
I'll start out by saying this is not a beginner's bourbon. While it's only 90 proof, it drinks much higher. It has a nice nose, strongly caramel and vanilla, standard for bourbon.
A sip reveals a medium burn with a fairly overpowering ethanol taste. If you leave it in the glass for a few minutes, a second sip mellows out and reveals a rather smooth, somewhata pleasant bourbon.
At $40, it's not a terrible pricepoint for what you're getting, but it just wouldn't be my go to with that amount of money to spend.
That being said, if I came across it at a bar, a finger of this to warm up the sense certainly would be something I would consider.
Overall, worth the money? No. Worth a try? Yes.