Tasting Notes
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After nine years in ex-bourbon wood, we transferred this into a first fill American oak PX hogshead. The nose combined three-fruit marmalade tartness with earthier rewards (golden sultanas, apricot jam, stewed plums, figs in brandy). The palate progressed from blood orange and vanilla ice cream to dark chocolate and thick-cut marmalade on burnt toast, before finishing with leather, tobacco and hot toddy with cinnamon and clove. The reduced nose had cherry vanilla cola, toffee apples, exotic woods (sandalwood, teak) and hints of a humidor. The palate remained chewy and mouth-coating, with flavours of gingerbread and candied orange dipped in dark chocolate, and cheeky spices warming the finish.