Tasting Notes
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A beautiful and deeply classical initial aroma of seawater, green olives, bath salts, rock pools, seaweed crackers, preserved lemons in brine and camphor laced with iodine drops. Beyond that: bandages soaked in white wine vinegar. Powerful, potent but controlled. With water, we found smoked cereals, burnt toast, salted butter with chopped parsley, scallops seared and wrapped with parma ham, anchovy paste and pure, blue peat smoke direct from a kiln. The neat palate was a big tempestuous maelstrom of pure antiseptic, surgical mouthwash, iodine, shellfish grilling over hot coals, petrol, green chilli, smoked paprika and mercurochrome. Reduction brought lemon cough medicine, salted peanuts, seawater, tabasco mixed with lime juice, tarry tope, pickled herring and the dregs of a dirty Martini.