Tasting Notes
Limited to one bottle per member.
Fourteen years in ex-bourbon wood was the pre-amble to further enhancement in a first-fill re-char barrique. The nose was a seaside barbeque – seared scallops and bacon, toasted buns, treacle, tar, tobacco and peat embers. The delights of the neat palate seemed never ending – blood orange, cognac, golden syrup, pork crackling, burnt heather and wood smoke. On the reduced nose – langoustines grilled over oak staves, fruit cake, hot-cross buns and roasted chestnuts, bonfire-baked potatoes and a whiff of new laid tarmac. The palate teased us with hickory-smoked surf and turf, pipe tobacco smoke, maple syrup and black bun; ‘Outstanding – the best barbeque dram ever!’