The flavor is remenisent of a Tootsie-Roll dissolved in large quantity of soda water…more watery than Tootsie-Roll. As one might imagine, it’s not very good. Not sure how much better it would have been if we had fresh, whenever that would have been. Couldn’t fine a date on the bottle, but snowflakes make me think holidays…but what year? 2014 maybe..it’s been in the drawer for a while