Cask No. B5.9 Sweet fruity & mellow Having spent three decades in

Having spent three decades in a refill sherry hogshead

with a Jamaican coffee liqueur chocolate mousse and brandied maraschino cherries

Thick wedges of fruitcake and marzipan sat beside custard cream biscuits as we approached the tingly palate that embraced the character of wasabi peas and horseradish sauce

After nine years in ex-bourbon wood we transferred this into a second-fill PX hogshead

salty pasta water

Cask No. B5.9 Sweet fruity & mellow Having spent three decades inOur initial notes included maraschino juices, sweet orange wines, aged triple sec, nutmeg, liquorice and treacle spread on hot cross buns. It also brought to mind molten chocolate marshmallow and jam biscuits, dark honey and date molasses. Reduction made it more complex and we found notes of sunflower oil, shoe polish, cream soda and Turkish delight thicker, deeper and darker. The palate when neat was peppered with cloves, crystallised satsuma chunks,