Nose: An interesting opening reveals sour apple sweets, lightly charred oak and warm butterscotch. Marzipan icing, vanilla custard, sweet pastry, cream cheese danish and barley twists all emerge and linger. A faint hint of fizzy cherry is there too, perhaps.
Palate: Warm, sweet, spicy and drying all at once, homemade apple juice bursts to the fore, while melting salted caramel and fresh-from-the-oven-cherry Bakewell tart relax amongst aromatic cinnamon and hot cumin.
Finish: Long and interesting, fizzy apple cables line the edge, while rich oak and a teasing whiff of smoke fade.
Overall: Wonderful, a brilliantly mad concoction with subtle complexities. It’s at once a confectionery store, a bakery and an autumnal Swedish forest.