Tasting Notes
The varnished hush of an antique library, home to all the arcane tomes on the secrets of coopering, lingered over blowtorched watermelon and golden-syrup popcorn, its butterscotch sweetness curling through the pages of leather-bound books. Melting butter and candied ginger whispered from dusty shelves, while thick tannins marched in carrying liquorice torpedoes and old saddles. A splash of water unlocked tonka bean toffee, rum-and-raisin fudge and the citrus lift of satsumas, before mandarins and bergamot-scented shortbread settled like well-thumbed pages. It finished with a genteel nod to garibaldi biscuits dipped in earl grey tea and a lasting trace of liquorice. After spending 12 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead this was transferred to a first fill heavy toast hogshead for the remainder of its maturation.
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