- Nose
- Full and fruity with cherry and juicy red apple. Caramel infused coffee grounds and cocoa powder are softened with a restrained smoke, initially of heather bonfire and hand-rolled sweet tobacco leaves. Herbal notes like cedar & fennel are present. With water, dark chocolate and walnut oil come through and more smoke emerges through the sweeter fruits. Smoky pistachio and milk chocolate, roasted vegetables, condensed milk, a very herbal, dry style of smoke – like burnt sage, mint, and witch hazel.
- Palate
- An explosion of sweet flavours like nut toffee brittle, raisin fudge and dark fruits (fig, damson and plump cherries) is balanced with a rockpool salinity or salted crispy seaweed. Dark chocolate coated raisins lead into chicory and sweet cinnamon spices alongside a curious drying sensation. The smoke builds up to a crescendo of sweet applewood and a medicinal iodine, burnt moss and ash. A nice sweet start, tastes of brown sugar and pastry. Then comes in the witch hazel note, more pistachio, and the taste of meat cooked over a bonfire.
- Finish
- Long and chewy with sweet treacle toffee aniseed spice, coal tar soap and burning embers. Spicy, dry, and then smoky. The smokiness really steps out on the finish. Long, smoky, and complex, with echoes of spice and charred oak.
