Taster

Nose: Soft and gentle peat notes, distant bracken fires. Then sweetness comes through, vanilla ice cream sandwiches, wafers and sweet strawberry sauce.

Palate: Plenty of vanilla and hot buttered digestive biscuits, that smoke note is lurking, smoked chicken and some mayonnaise.

Finish: The smoke ramps up and disappears leaving a sweet fatty note of grilled bacon.

Comment: Eating ice cream while the moors burn away.

Score: 8.9

Taster

Nose: Takes time to open up. There’s raspberry gummies, wood smoke and hickory, a gentle medicinal character. Allspice and ginger cake.

Palate: Mouth-coating. Juicy fruit chews, iodine and smoked plums. A somewhat savoury biscuit note.

Finish: A little hot, but long and fruity with gentle wood smoke.

Comment: The wood is restrained and the palate is pleasantly spirit forward.

Score: 8