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.