- Nose
- Blue cheese and dates with cream sherry, cinder toffee with boozy raisins, notes of Teurgoule – Normandy-style rice pudding, chocolate, espresso, marzipan, ginger, sunflower oil, marigolds, mouldy walls, burnt toast, brown sugars, cold brew coffee liqueur, mezcal, pickled onion Monster Munch, tobacco leaves, charred beef, Worcestershire sauce, figs, tamari sauce, brown sugar barbecue sauce, wood, subtle peat smoke, orange, lime, sea salt, mixed unripped and fresh orchard fruits, dry raisin and currant, brine.
- Palate
- Dried fruits and dark chocolate mingle with honeycomb and clotted cream, a touch of sea salt, sherry fruits (raspberries, cranberries, damsons, dates), soured wine, chilli chocolate, earthiness, wet souls, mosses, potpourri, butyric acid, wallpaper paste, tree bark, thick, coating, leather, drying, charred beef, tamari sauce, charred figs, raisins, blood orange, sweetness mixed with some sour orchard and bitterness.
- Finish
- Fairly long, with coffee beans and walnuts from sherry influence, drying steeliness, slight chalky minerality, barbecue, tamari sauce, dry, raisins, huge leather, barrel char, ashy, rum-soaked fruit cake, long and warming, slowly fades into notes of toffee sauce, chocolaty, sweet and bitter, some oakiness and dryness, long and lingering with prominent oak, sherried raisins, sea salt, cigar leaves, dark chocolate, hint of orange.
