86 / 100
This has an appealing tension between green, herbal notes and rounded sweetness. Hawthorn and chopped chives lead into bourbon biscuits and chocolate-covered honeycomb, while the palate shifts toward ferns, tobacco and pinecones alongside marzipan and salted caramel. That earthy turn keeps the sweeter elements from feeling one-note. The finish returns to fruit and creamy sweetness, with plum sauce, condensed milk and grape must. There’s plenty to follow here, even if the documented character leans more herbal and earthy than spicy.
Reviewed by sunbeamwren
- Nose
- Herbal hawthorn and chopped chives, Puff candy, bourbon biscuits and chocolate-covered honeycomb, Wood vanillin
- Palate
- Rolling tobacco, trampled ferns, marzipan and salted caramel, Bread, pinecones, petrichor and pollen
- Finish
- Resurgent sweetness of plum sauce, condensed milk and grape must