What a nose! Cola cubes, candy corns, rumtopf and apricot flan with shisha pipes, pomegranate molasses and polished wood – its aromatherapy in a glass! The palate is a chewy, juicy elixir of euphoria pineapple, toffee apples, Old English Spangles, grenadine and blackcurrant-soaked oak then a finishing flicker of mulled wine and wood spice.

The reduced nose is a delightful chameleon of glazed plums, honey, jelly beans, golden syrup on buttered toast and Amarena cherries. The palate now wickedly seductive and sweet Peshawari naan and dessert wine. After 26 years in a bourbon barrel we moved this into new oak.