Still life with flavours

This complex, slightly understated nose combined light-touch brush strokes of fruit (pear belle Hélène, lemon drizzle cake and flambéed pineapple) with impressionistic dabs of chamomile, geranium, cinnamon and white pepper. The palate initially offered fruitiness again; grapefruit, tangerine and toffee apple blending with some subtle aromatics, such as jasmine and bergamot, then finishing with various spice notes, releasing nutmeg, ginger and cumin – but it was gently warming, not hot. Additional impressions on the reduced nose included garibaldi biscuits, vanilla, coconut and liquorice. On the palate, the toffee sweetness, the aromatics and the spice were all held lovingly together by a fresh oak and liquorice-flavoured lozenge tang and tickle.