Clean as a whistle

The nose picked up pleasant sweetness (barley sugars, brownie, tinned fruit salad) and clean notes of freshly ironed laundry, expensive new carpets and soft leather gloves. The palate combined orange blossom honey and marmalade with caramelised almonds, marzipan and apricot iced tea; finishing with fennel, eucalyptus and tart fruit skins. The reduced nose had apple blossoms falling on waxed jackets, rhubarb rock, sherbet lemons and tinned lychees. All of this synthesised into a palate of fruit candies, nougat, stewed apple (with clove) and tea tree oil. After 12 years in ex-bourbon wood we transferred this into a second fill Limousin oak hogshead.