Tasting Notes
Like most celebrations, it all started in a mature and grown-up fashion with fresh fennel, dill and coriander seeds leading to the acquired bitterness of pine sap, then ginger, nutmeg and dried pineapple. After a few sips, however, we rapidly reverted to our childhood as tutti frutti bubblegum merged with banana foam sweets, peardrops and aniseed balls, all washed down with cherry cola. A dash of water did little to dampen the sugar high as our sticky mitts reached for jars of fruit jellies, jelly beans and strawberry trifle. Then after a sip of banana liqueur it was back to adulthood for a sensible cup of earl grey tea with a slice of lemon.