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This was a real winter warmer, delighting the Panellists with a serving of hay-smoked lamb chops in a redcurrant glaze next to wild berry fruit tea and oak-smoked tomato ketchup. The palate neat continued the foody theme with sweet, smoky marinated chicken wings and the iconic German street food, currywurst – a bratwurst with a sauce made from tomato purée, yellow curry powder, other spices, sugar and vinegar. After the addition of water, and all these foods, we needed a digestif of either a grappa or a fernet. In the finish, we rustled up a smoky version of a hanky panky cocktail by adding lapsang souchong tea. Following 11 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, we transferred this whisky into a first fill #4+ char hogshead.