Gold with a touch of cyan and a nose of white pepper, lemon drops, green apple gums, banana ester, vanilla, dried ginger and peanut brittle. The oak is quite pronounced on this release.

In the mouth it’s rich and juicy with dense flavours of apple, pear and peach, coloured by plenty of caramel-vanilla oak. A seam of chewy lime-like acidity helps drive the fruit, but it seems to lose momentum at the midpalate and doesn’t quite achieve the usual Moss Wood sense of completeness. It ends on whispers