- Nose
- Salty-spicy top notes with hints of caramelised apple crumble, sweet mellow fruit, maritime base, faded boat varnish, dried fish, and a suggestion of smoke. Also notes of pine, tar, hoisin sauce, tobacco juice, brine, hot beach sand, stewed lemons and apples, apricots, raspberries, steel, cacao, prunes, plums, black cherry, cigar humidor wood, Brora-like smoke, smoldering campfire, red berries, walnut oil varnish, chlorine, mint, sugar, caramel, fresh fennel leaves, radish greens, green coffee beans, mango skins, star fruit, banana, maraschino cherry, sandalwood, and smoky raw sugar.
- Palate
- Rich and smooth with initial sweetness of soft fudge, balancing saltiness, peppery heat, and a chili-pepper kick. Notes of pepper, wood smoke, raisins, smouldering driftwood, chilli, peat smoke, caramel, medicinal onset, black pepper, leather, baking spice, coastal notes, salted caramel, nutty notes, apple peel, paraffin wax, beeswax, baked bananas, burnt toast, coffee beans, and liquorice.
- Finish
- Long, hot, smoky, and delicious, with lingering peat smoke, mouth-cooling Sichuan pepper, chilli, caramel, orange peel, minty freshness, eucalyptus, deep and chalky dried fruits in cacao powder, coffee, and a drying, softly smoky conclusion.
