MARCH PREVIEWS: SLIGHTLY WICKED SWEET TREATS 

Warming cinnamon fragrance, buttery pastry melting in the mouth, fingers sticky with glaze; today’s preview bottlings are whispering sweet nothings to entice you to their sides. Whether you’re smitten with sherry (9.104) or seduced by Sauternes (5.49), give in to temptation and embrace your object of desire before they vanish in Friday’s general release…

Spicy & sweet

44.72 Slightly wicked sweet treats

The nose has slightly wicked sweet treats (iced ginger cake, cinnamon swirl), plus pot-pourri, leather tobacco pouches and nuts. The taste combines walnut cake, honey and toffee apple sweetness with suggestions of earthy, woody notes…

Age: 12 years
Cask: Refill ex-bourbon barrel
Price: £46.70 

Old & dignified

9.104 Lychee martini

Mixed green salad, followed by wild boar stew and Comice pear on the nose neat, whilst on the palate smoky apple and honey glazed ham. Diluted; chargrilled balsamic vegetable skewers and in the finish…

Age: 27 years
Cask: Refill ex-sherry butt
Price: £129.90

Juicy, oak & vanilla

5.49 Lady of the night

Fruity Aromas were soon followed by the perfumed floral scent of orchids. Hot and almost over-the-top sweet perfumed flavours neat. Diluted, much more balanced; spicy and sweet and puff pastry with cinnamon sugar…

Age: 12 years
Cask: Second fill ex-Sauternes hogshead
Price: £46.70 

Please note: This is a limited release from March’s Outturn, full release on Friday 4 March.

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