SMWS 36.218 Penumbral pleasure SMWS

The nose was a scatter of impressions – orange jelly fruits and tinned mandarins, toffee apples and pain au chocolat, ginger beer and hazelnut spread. The palate shifted from slightly astringent rhubarb tart, lemon zest and green grapes to chocolate pralines and sticky toffee pudding; finishing with pepper, balsamic and lime pickle. The reduced nose discovered new shoes and waxed saddles, lemon trees, cut grass and artists’ studios. The juicy palate had fruit punch, cola cubes, apple sauce and honeysuckle – before a dry finish of oak, grain mustard and mace. After 13 years in ex-bourbon wood, this spent the remainder of its maturation in a second fill sauternes barrique.