Taster

Nose: Heather-laden honey, oatcakes (the chocolate ones), crunchy granola with tea-soaked raisins, salted caramel sauce.

Palate: That caramel sauce note comes through, Swiss milk chocolate, then some fresh fruits, strawberries, redcurrants and figs.

Finish: Takes a little time but just keeps going once it starts.

Comment: A lovely number with some sweet notes going on in the middle. Honey-laden like a good soul singer.

Score: 8.4

Taster

Nose: Oily and intriguing with a dense fruitiness in banana chips, figs, dried strawberries and blueberry leather. It’s accompanied by roasted hazelnuts and toasted almond flakes with a glazed crème caramel.

Palate: Rich and oily with fragrant freshly polished leather that relax into an earthy, sherried fruitiness full of red grapes, old red wine, maraschino and hazelnuts too.

Finish: A rich, peppery and slightly tannic Shiraz with the sweetness of dried figs.

Comment: Deep, delicious, divine.

Score: 9.4