Beautiful, Deep, Sweet Mouth Caress

SPIRIT NOTES

After nine years in ex-bourbon wood we shifted this into a first-fill Spanish oak Oloroso hogshead. The end result is an elegant and refined nose that offered polished oak, beeswax, brandy snaps, candied orange peel and after-dinner mints. The palate’s beautiful, deep, sweet mouth caress of malt extract, jaffa cakes, Turkish delight, dessert wine and sweet tobacco also had hints of sage, fennel and thyme, and a mild finishing heat of chilli and pepper. With water, the nose found fig rolls, cherry jam roly-poly, a dark chocolate orange, vanilla, honey and charcoal. Our palates rejoiced in Highland toffee, brown sugar, dark cherries, bergamot and Pineau des Charentes.