There’s juice loose aboot this hoose

After 12 years in ex-bourbon wood this was transferred into a first fill heavy toast medium char hogshead. The nose ("super juicy", "yummy!") offered crème brûlée, treacle tart and peach cobbler, orange zest, beeswax and tobacco. The palate ("great texture") suggested boozy fruits such as prunes in red wine, a buck’s fizz and brandy-fed Christmas cake, plus mango and passion fruit sorbet. On the reduced nose was yet more fruit – pears, pineapple, apple fritters and lychee joined the dominant juicy peach – supported by cinnamon, nutmeg, sandalwood and hessian. The palate now delighted with honey and marshmallows, buttery cinnamon swirls and gewürztraminer-poached pear, before a lick of liquorice to finish.