Tasting Notes
We drizzled nocino, a spicy-sweet Italian walnut liqueur, over baked apples with sultanas. On the palate we stayed, thanks to Shakespeare, in the so-called country of love and romance (more poetic than the actual translation of Italy as the ‘land of calves’). We drank a bittersweet caffè shakerato – espresso coffee shaken over ice with a little sugar syrup added. Following reduction, we prepared a New York deli pastrami sandwich and drank a cocktail, named after the famous jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt, of dry vermouth, lemon juice and sugar syrup, garnished with an orange slice. Following 10 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead we transferred this whisky into a first fill Spanish oak oloroso hogshead.