Afternoon tea sticky, gooey strawberry jam served with fresh spiced sultana griddle scones as well as super moist, warm, straight-out-of-the-oven gingerbread cake with a cinnamon cream cheese frosting. That was only the nose on the palate a seriously drunken cherry chocolate cake and dark salted roasty-toasty coconut toffee.

A drop of water and we prepared porcini hot chocolate may sound odd but the dried porcini powder added an earthiness to the sweetness and when sprinkled with cocoa powder, an absolute delight. We then moved into a coffee house in Austria, enjoying Sacher and Linzer tortes as well as genuine Salzburger Mozartkugeln. Bottled for the 2020 Highland Whisky Festival.

Silver medal winner at London’s 2021 International Wine & Spirit Competition.