Tasting Notes
A big, juicy and intense fruitiness dominated this neat nose. Thick and gloopy exotic fruit cordials and syrups met underlying green-fruit aromas and a subtle cloak of sherry. We loved the way these various influences all entwined together. Water enhanced the weightier components of the spirit, bringing camphor, natural tar notes, exotic hardwood resins and crystallised tropical fruits. The palate displayed juicy dark and tropical fruits up front, with quince paste, sultanas and figs preserved in guava jelly – a stunning mix of dark and tropical fruit flavours. Water retained this superb fruitiness, bringing out juicy fruit chewing gum, golden syrup on baked apple pie and plums soaked in armagnac. We'd say it was a glorious fusion of distillate and sherry influence. This was matured in a bourbon hogshead for 14 years before being transferred to a first fill Spanish oak oloroso hogshead.
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