- Nose
- Madagascan vanilla pods, candied blood orange, and ripe red grapes. Also roasted coffee beans, plums, raisins, dark chocolate, black peppercorns, rich toffee, hazelnuts, oak polish, fragrant raspberry.
- Palate
- Christollen cake, sherry-soaked raisins, and soft chewy liquorice. Also praline, boozy fruit, spice, sherry influence with a sharper, slightly tannic red wine edge, tangy ginger and clove, gingerbread, wine soaked pears, dark chocolate, orange peels, red fruit jam.
- Finish
- Doyenne pear with raspberry coulis and chocolate truffles. Also long, spicy, wine tannins, orange peels, darker chocolate, unique and complex.