- Nose
- Wonderful freshness, superbly floral, with whiffs of fruit salad (melon), ripe apricots, various types of honey and eucalyptus. Little smoke, with bolder apricot (jam) and natural vanilla. Dark chocolate, fine cocoa, fennel, thyme, cumin, expensive coffee, ancient leather, old, damp tobacco, nutmeg, parchment, dry liquorice, banana split and papaya, saffron, ginger, aniseed, coconut, pomegranate, blood orange.
- Palate
- Not a powerhouse but not thin, weak, tired, drying or cardboardy. Notes of tobacco, banana skin, orange marmalade, tangerines, apricot, resinous development, ginger and cinnamon. Exciting, coffee struggles with fruit notes (mango, pomegranate, pineapple), then fragile. Vegetable notes of aubergine and zucchini, oiled leather, cumin, fennel, anise, rosemary, lavender and licorice.
- Finish
- Not extremely long but the blend of apricotty notes with a little pine resin and mint works perfectly well. Long, dark malt, leather and parchment, forest floor and saffron, some coffee grounds but more discreet.
