Nose

Big, sweet, concentrated. Chocolate orange, cocoa, raisins, sticky toffee pudding, black fruits, Madeira-like, bitter-sweet. Needs water to calm it and show balanced oak clearly.

Palate

Big, fat, rich. Rum, raisin, kumquat peel/marmalade. Chocolate, dried peel, vanilla.

Finish

Bitter chocolate.

Comment

A bling-bling dram. Goes wonderfully with cigars! (and fur coats and gold jewellery).