Tasting Notes
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The nose had charred chestnuts, sugar-coated fennel seeds, liquorice comfits, tar and a coalman’s shoulder cloth. The palate was deep, visceral and cheek-tingling – smoke, embers, tar, nut brittle, prawns grilled on salt and something medicinal, carbolic, almost diabolic in a flirting with the Devil kind of way. The reduced nose suggested coal scuttles, bandages, fried seaweed and lime sorbet. Tasting it now; malt extract, sherbet sweets and hot charcoal dropped in champagne – a warm glow radiated outwards – sweeter, but still as deep as the roots of the tree of life. After five years in ex-bourbon wood we transferred this into a heavy-toast, medium-char refill hoggie.