Nose

Complex and meaty: cooked fruits, polished oak, incense, coffee grounds, medlar, wet tea leaves, dry amontillado, flamed orange peel.

Palate

Perfumed, almost oily start. Good balance. Wood gives grip but there's sweet centre with notes of heather blossom and maraschino cherry.

Finish

Lightly peaty.

Comment

A big boy, but has sufficient sweetness to balance the oak.