- Nose
- Aromatic orange fruit, wood, and baking spices layered with late summer berries and nutty crème caramel. Dense layers of fig jam, Medjool dates, and sultanas, with rich espresso, dark chocolate mint, and a hint of polished oak. Sweet and spicy, with plums, dates, raisins, dark cherries, dry sherry, toffee, 80% dark chocolate, leather, dried banana, herbal notes (clove, liquorice), vanilla pods, honey, strong tea, nutty, perfumey notes, wax, figs, ginger.
- Palate
- Blackcurrant and plum conserve with chocolate malt, ginger, and warming oak spices. Viscous and full-bodied, bringing treacle toffee, black cherries, roasted coffee beans, and spiced fruitcake, balanced by cooling mint chocolate and nutmeg warmth. Sweet, fresh clean sherry, dried fruit (fig, date, plum), some leather, cherry, raisin, drying with tannins, toffee, clove, spice, pepper and salt. Victoria plum, date and ginger spiced walnut with black grape wine and chocolate tobacco. Exquisite dark chocolate, dates and brambles with lingering cocoa laced espresso.
- Finish
- Richly rewarding, with a persistent chocolate, liquorice, and walnut finish. Long and decadent, with lingering sherried fruit, mocha, and a subtle herbal freshness from the mint. Long length, drying with burnt sugar, oak, dark chocolate and some coffee.
