- Nose
- Heavy, pungent and dense. Mineral oil, linseed oil, olive oil, dark stewed fruits, plum pudding, red berries, mango, rancio, brown sugar and fudge. Over time, dark sherried fruit and oak notes appear. After about half an hour of rest, its full sweet fruity character is revealed, with a dash of wintergreen. After considerable time, oak casks and a creosote note and aroma of salmiak.
- Palate
- A big, spiced herbal sherry arrival. Sweet at first but then gaining a grippy dry tannic quality. Pepper, allspice, ginger powder, anise, menthol and cloves. Coffee, bitter Seville marmalade, wood varnish, sulphery blackstrap molasses, sour cherries and licorice. The texture is rich to start with but becomes a little thin and loses "weight" as it progresses into dryness.
- Finish
- Long. Drying and waxy, almost astringent before returning to sweetness. Black coffee, dark chocolate, cigar tobacco and herbal flavours linger.
