Tasting Notes
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The Panel initially suggested this may as well be cask aged bananas. A big, inviting morass of bananas baked with brown sugar, blood orange cocktails, cranberry jelly and then deeper notes of beery rarebit, game pie and waxy grease. Textural, fat and wonderfully dense! Reduction made everything earthier, broader and more towards black pepper, dry roasted nuts, chopped dates and booze-soaked sultanas. A silky umami vibe of mutton broth in the background. The palate was initially rich and full of winter mulling spices, game meats, expensive black coffee, hardwood resins and lathe shavings. With water these gamey notes became more pronounced and darker fruit tones emerged such as stewed figs in armagnac with a dollop of cardamom custard on the side. Matured for 15 years in a bourbon hogshead before being transferred to a first fill oloroso hogshead.