Tasting Notes
A multifaceted, shapeshifting dram – one sniff brings wax, shoe leather and rolling tobacco; the next finds mineral and citric notes, before softer, sweeter aspects emerge including banana split and vanilla tablet. The palate’s initial sweetness of custard and chocolate-coated cereal bars turns tannic in time, with black tea, jasmine, herbs and strawberry laces. The finish finds cinnamon and sugar-coated fennel seeds. Adding water shifts the nose in a fruity direction – we got banana chips, mandarin segments, toffee apples, pears and fruit jelly trifle. The palate now combined desiccated coconut, salted caramel and shortbread, with a spicier finish of chilli, white pepper, coriander and clove.
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