Description
Nose: a mix of vanilla, roasted coffee beans and red grapes. Also plums and raisins, with dark chocolate and hints of black peppercorns. Fairly rich toffee and hazelnuts. A subtle hint of oak polish and fragrant raspberry too.Quite wide and balanced.Mouth: a nice sherry influence albeit with a sharper, slightly tannic red wine edge. Raisins, a lot of liquorice and pepper. Tangy ginger and clove. Gingerbread and wine soaked,pears too. Then dark chocolate and orange peels, plus some red fruit jam.Finish: quite long, really spicy, with more of the wine tannins and orange peels, with darker chocolate in the very end.
