Sea Salt And Szechuan Pepper

SPIRIT NOTES

The nose suggested coastal fog round a shipbuilders yard: clean and subtle, with additional hints of clover honey, golden syrup, fruit salad chews and banana split. It acquired more self-confidence on the palate, with intense flavours of salted caramel pieces in dark chocolate, salted liquorice and green olives, grapefruit and lime acidity, and an aftertaste of Szechuan pepper and ship's timbers. The nose in reduction delivered wood shavings, perfumed pear, salted plantain chips, chocolate and pepper spice. On the palate, we now found coffee, apple cake, white wine gums, cinnamon bark and dry-roasted peanuts. The much-vaunted maritime character was subtle but undeniable.