A fountain of fruit in citric sunshine

The nose was a comforting cascade of orchard fruits and citric sunshine – including tutti frutti, toffee apples, peaches, orange peel; rhubarb rock and sherbet lemons in wax paper. The taste found a vein of vanilla and floods of fruit combining tart and sweet flavours – red apples, victoria plums, blackberries, cranberries and raspberries; then a reverberating finish of black pepper, soft oak and subtle spice. Water brought perfumed pear, apricot jam, balsa wood and shoeshines to the nose, while the palate, still fruity and tart, developed a friendlier reverberation at the end, as summer bees buzzed in their honey-laden, waxy, wooden hives.