Taster

Nose: Full-fat fresh milkshakes with blackcurrant syrup. Cherry ice cream with caramel wafers. There’s smoke, wood-smoked duck with cherry sauce.

Palate: Warm straw and creamy goat’s cheese. But then there’s fruit coming through, strawberries and black pepper spiciness. Olive oil flatbreads and a little charred wood.

Finish: That charred wood stays, tempered by blueberry compote.

Comment: Delicious and a good mix of savoury and sweet. The cask seems to have exerted a little too much influence on the liquid.

Score: 7.5

Taster

Nose: An overwhelming hit of butyric acid and bonfire smoke. Lots of caramel and sticky fruit in damson jam, sweet figs and a couple of overripe strawberries.

Palate: Mouth-coating and a little sour, with Austrian smoked cheese dominating. The dark fruits fight with blackberries, strawberries and damsons, which mingle nicely with the smoke.

Finish: Smoked Edam and fruit chutney.

Comment: For me the butyric acid is quite pronounced, but it’s not always a negative quality. This is still an interesting dram.

Score: 7.8