Tasting Panel Notes

This amazing vintage dram evoked driving a vintage motor car (with its interior of polished wood and leather) down country lanes. We passed honeysuckle, lavender, leaf mulch and orchard fruits en route to a tea room where we enjoyed chocolate cake and blackberry jelly on almond bostocks. The palate delighted with raspberry jam and crème de cassis, sweetened black tea and cola, finishing with tingling traces of nutmeg, ginger and cinnamon. Water added mango, melon and pear to the nose, while the palate picked up orange notes, cocoa, linden flower tea and salted plantain chips. After 26 years in ex-bourbon wood, we transferred this into a first fill Spanish oak PX hogshead to mature further.