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Settle back, relax and you will be rewarded. Plenty of initial fruity aromas, including caramelised pears, charred pineapple and mango, were followed by the scent of sweet blue cheese: Italian gorgonzola dolce or German cambozola came to mind. Still evolving in the glass, we got a watercress salad dressed with smoked olive oil. On the palate came plenty of soot and coal dust, and ash-coated soft goat's cheese next to sweet and sour plum sauce – “extraordinaire”! Be very careful adding water. A vibrant and zesty essence of pink grapefruit developed on the nose while to taste we found tabasco pepper sauce, blueberry pancakes and orange pomander. Following 24 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a first fill STR oloroso-seasoned first fill barrique.