Description
On the nose, fruity sweetness (honey, melon, lemon curd) arm wrestled with drier notes of hickory wood, mustard seeds and white pepper. The palate gave us teasing honey and mango sweetness, but the dryness prevailed – trail mix (dried pineapple, coconut, banana and nuts), pencil shavings, perfumed wood and "licking wasabi from a chopstick". With water, delightful aromas arrived on the nose – coconut, golden syrup, orange marmalade, ginger cake, brandy snaps and a leather tobacco pouch. The palate now started with banana bread, tinned mandarins and apple crumble with custard, but finished with roasted chestnuts, molasses, cumin seeds and tannic oak.