Fruit Bomb Frieze

The neat nose was redolent with chocolate-coated cherries, coconut, vanilla ice cream, chocolate stout and the umami richness of stock cubes. We also found fruitier qualities, such as dried mango, raisins and plum wine. Water brought honey, orange bitters, marmalade, teak oil and candied hazelnuts. The palate was immediately dominated by fruits; superbly vibrant and luscious notes of cherry, mango, pineapple jam, fizzy refresher sweets and fruity cold-brew coffee. In time all this evolved beautifully to passion fruit and waxiness. With water the Panel felt a bit lost for words. Just sheer layers of fruit! We found all manner of notes from sweet coconut cream, mint toffee and aged pipe tobacco to overripe papaya, gentian and more passion fruit.