Taster

Nose: One word – Christmas. Very delicate, a tad too light. Lots of allspice, frankincense, cloves, burnt apple. It’s surprisingly difficult to find the subtle sweetness among these monster houses of spice.

Palate: The return of the spice. A heavy oak and butterscotch blast followed by a powerful mouth coating marzipan, clove and ground pepper.

Finish: Short, oozing of brown sugar and caramel.

Comment: Expecting originality from the original spices on the nose, it was well balanced and delivered on its promise. Enjoyable.

Score: 7.7

Taster

Nose: Crisp corn and dusty spice with some youthful herbal but \nbitter rye and oak. With time a touch of burnt toffee and orange conserve emerges.

Palate: Opens with the burnt toffee and oily corn. Straightforward but relatively deep. However the burnt toffee is a \nlittle intrusive and over time becomes the dominating flavour.

Finish: Long with the now astringent, herbal rye battling the burnt toffee and corn for supremacy.

Comment: It appears to be a simple, inexpensive Bourbon.

Score: 7.8