The plot thickens

The nose was nouvelle cuisine's take on a fruit salad; carefully layered clementine segments balanced on sliced white grapes, brambles and hazelnuts, with decorative plaited strands of hay. The palate gave good value, adding significant contrast from darker notes of plum, nutmeg and a crescendo of spice as a precursor to crispy bacon and honeyed ginger tea. Water elevated custard on the nose, as well as pear juice poured on a warm sponge cake and a drizzle of agave syrup atop red berries. Much like the reduced nose, the palate finished, curiously, with an enhanced texture, as though more agave had been added, accompanied by chamomile and salted pretzels dipped in mango purée.