marrons glacés
then buttermilk icing
A crunch from peanut brittle crumbled onto maple syrup as it trickled down a chimney and onto heather and gorse that sparked and flamed in the fireplace
bitter and persistent like a piece of 99% cacao chocolate melting slowly in your mouth – quite an experience but we absolutely loved it
Sharp as the samurai sword we were using to slice fresh raw fish (salmon
Cask No. 41.136 JAPAN marrons glacésCask No. 41. 136 Varnished crumpets Speyside, Spey The panel discovered a rather more punchy and fulsome example of this stalwart make. Lots of old varnish, buttered crumpets, hand lotion, talcum powder, white flowers, stone fruits, plum jam, hessian, white asparagus and some sweeter notes of desiccated coconut, Jaffa cakes and dark chocolate. Water brought out millionaire shortbread, rum truffles, soft leather tobacco pouch and toasted fennel seed.