This almost started a ‘rumbullion’ in the Panel – a Devonshire word meaning ‘a great tumult’
and old fruit bowl too long in the sun
A captivating complexity torpedoed the senses with a myriad of wondrous sensations as the warming tingle of ginger mingled with orange groves
An enticing nose began confidently with boiled lemon sweets and sweet boozy butterscotch
Water brings a rugged and gravelly minerality to the fore
Cask No. 37.138 Juicy oak & vanilla This almost started a ‘rumbullion’Cask No. 37. 138 After the party Speyside, Spey After 15 years in ex bourbon wood, this was introduced to an American oak first fill PX hogshead. The nose treated the Panel to treacle tart, toasted coconut, cassis, plum sauce on roast duck, sherry spilled on a flamenco floor and fag ends stubbed out in a red wine glass. The palate combined sticky toffee pudding sweetness with raspberry concentrate and ruby port, before an earthier finish of wood,