Delight in the uncanny

The nose took us simultaneously to a farm shop café and to the orangery, where we found warm rubber boots, a shaved fennel salad topped with rapeseed oil, coffee grounds and cola. The palate was oozing with strawberry, melon, passion fruit and blackberry pie, and offered a touch of mace to a steaming bowl of custard sprinkled with sugared almonds. Water amplified the custard, added a raspberry slushie and gave coconut on the nose. The palate was now just like the nose, uncanny, but with a spoon of orange marmalade, coconut taffy and ginger. A vocal Panel thoroughly enjoyed this dram.