Cask No. 53.501 England Everything was too good to

Everything was too good to be true

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melt-in-your-mouth oven baked barbeque ribs alongside maple and star anise roasted plums appeared

vanilla and exotic fruits galore

Cask No. 53.501 England Everything was too good toThe nose started with maritime suggestions (shellfish, rock salt and seaweed), then picked up antiseptics and iodine, earthy notes of moss and peat and unsurprisingly, smoke (we identified smoked ham and marshmallows toasted over a driftwood fire). The neat palate offered a robust body and intense flavours; initially caramel sauce and fig jam sweetness, followed by considerable smoke, spice and saltiness (burnt toast, lapsang souchong tea and a beach