Taster

Nose: Fresh! Delightful maltiness that combines with sweet apple sauce. Pears and fresh peaches. Tinned fruit in custard. Green tomatoes and geraniums. Touch of dried hay.

Palate: Voluptuous and oily. Orange marmalade, with some grapefruit acidity. Dried apricots, floral honey. Slightly waxy. Peaches. Crab apple jelly. That lovely maltiness shines.

Finish: Cloves, black pepper, and a simple (tasty) mix of maltiness and orchard fruits.

Comment: This is simply a beautiful, uncomplicated, unfussy companion.

Score: 8.7

Taster

Nose: A wonderful mix of spring time and autumn, sweet meadow flowers, barley sugar sweets, caster sugar, then moving to leave mulch, boot dubbin and fields of fresh cut wheat.

Palate: This is unctuous and mouth-coating; clotted cream and honey. Peach flavoured barley water, with a touch of demerara sugar in there. Orange pith and sweet creamy oak.

Finish: Quite a little spice prickle just at the end, but lovely layers of sweetness.

Comment: Very engaging and an excellent dram. Highly recommended.

Score: 8.7