Van Gogh would like the colour of this taste

We opened a picnic basket in a flower meadow – bananas, chocolate hobnobs and lemon posset: happy days! We also identified pencil shavings and green peppercorns. Tropical fruits (mainly yellow ones) hit the palate, giving us mango, pineapple, charentais melon and yellow plums, plus some lemon ice lollies, sultanas and glucose tablets. With water the nose became more complex. We noted sugar-coated puffed maize and rice cereal, battenberg cake and salted caramel, as well as waxed paper, lino cuts and hints of tobacco. The diluted palate seemed an easy-going mix of rhubarb crumble, toffee apples and trail mix, with clove-spiced honey, sweet ginger and cinnamon. Good texture – but easy on the water.