Taster

Nose: Peat smoke, treacle, muscovado, and black pepper. Tinned pineapple. Bananas with custard, chopped sweet peppers, pickled veg, and double cream.

Palate: Sweet vanilla custard, barbeque-roasted bananas, smoked pears, sultanas, coconut cream and delicate candied ginger. Marshmallow fluff spread on chocolate digestives.

Finish: Long, on gentle woodsmoke and marshmallow.

Comment: Wondrously moreish, this could become a regular after-work sipper.

Score: 8.4

Taster

Nose: Dark fruit cake notes, with candied peel, cherries, plump raisins and a delicate layer of marzipan, followed by fresh, bright orchard fruit.

Palate: More of the cherries and dried fruit, this time like a Florentine biscuit with a layer of dark chocolate. Cinnamon and ginger spice and old leathery notes.

Finish: Lovely and lingering with the chocolate notes and leathery tang sticking with you.

Comment: This is right up my street. I think it would make a characterful and utterly delicious Old Fashioned.

Score: 8.6