Nose

Big and pungent. Fruit and wood. Cider apple, damson plums, honey. Dark chocolate.

Palate

Sour fruitiness. The spices and biting alcohol is hardly tolerable, even with water. Wood dominates maltiness. Reminiscent of a rye whiskey.

Finish

Robust, warm, biting.

Comment

It's my first taste of North Port so I can't decide if the distillery character has been blurred or not by sherry. Like a bulldozer after an earthquake.