Taster

Nose: Lovely and expressive. Juicy tropical fruit, some orange peel and cranberry fruit, sweet spice, clove, pine and freshly laundered sheets. There’s a touch of beef jerky in the background, but overall it’s that fresh sheet smell that pervades.

Palate: Fresh sheet aroma plays out on the palate before you take a bite of some cinnamon and chocolate-sprinkled French toast with a big vanilla pod on top.

Finish: Butterscotch and some fresh pine glide along.

Comment: Chocolate and spice and all things nice.

Score: 8

Taster

Nose: Cherries and jam tarts, with sweet pastry. Vanilla custard. Highly perfumed. Herbal. Fennel and peppermint, but dominant vanilla and cherries.

Palate: Plum jam, blackcurrant cordial and Morello cherries. Vanilla, with blackcurrants, blackberries, redcurrants and ketchup. Great balance of fruity acidity and syrupy sweetness.

Finish: Nutmeg and pepper, with a cherry sweetness and peppermint.

Comment: Well defined flavours, intense and balanced. Time brings rewards.

Score: 8.1