Taster

Nose: Funky and vegetal at first, before someone spills TCP. Almond milk, cinnamon and salty preserved lemons are cooking over a flame.

Palate: Reminiscent of horchata – grainy in texture, with a body of cinnamon-laced sweet, starchy rice milk. A medicinal iodine character blows about, before you get stuck into a pack of Parma Violets.

Finish: Sweet, salty and wrapped in bandages, along with cabbage soup.

Comment: The peaty medicine box is balanced by creamy characters, but vegetal quirk marks it down.

Score: 7.5

Taster

Nose: Strawberries and cream. Slightly mealy before moving onto some leafy and grassy qualities. Digestive biscuits. Not hugely forthcoming to be honest.

Palate: Malty grassiness at the core of it all, with oranges, hazelnuts and ground almonds. A little oak on show, though not much. Spicy, with traces of ash.

Finish: Short, with a splash of oaky Chardonnay and Malted Milk biscuits.

Comment: Summery stuff. But feels like a questionable cask was involved somewhere.

Score: 7.4