Happy in a hippy shop

The nose offered an abundance of orchard fruits – pears poached in port, peaches and cream, and stewed plums with custard – plus sponge cake and pink wafers. On the palate, raspberry sauce on ice cream and black forest gateau preceded a curious finish of wine-soaked staves, incense smoke and Indian spices. The reduced nose included hippy shop joss sticks, sandalwood and lavender, sugared almonds and apricot jam. The palate combined Amarena cherries in syrup and shortbread with a rather exotic finish of perfumed wood and ash, menthol and eucalyptus. After five years in ex-bourbon wood we transferred this into a first fill cosecha wine barrique.