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Colour: Deep, rich amber. Tasting notes, undiluted: Nose: Vanilla initially with fruit – figs and dates. Slowly the sweet, phenolic aromas develop – peppered kippers and germolene. Palate: Sweet and peppery, rich fruit and sherry elements combine with the salty/ozone Islay character. A peaty, ash note surfaces. With water: Nose: Sweet, fruitcake (Christmas pudding) and [...]
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Colour: Deep amber. Tasting notes, undiluted: Nose: Sweet, sherry with herbal notes – cut grass and bracken. Some rich fruit cake notes – Christmas pudding with a hint of brandy. Palate: Spicy with hints of menthol and eucalyptus. Some sherry sweetness with a charred oak edge. With water: Nose: Sherry with strong fruit notes apple [...]
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The recipe was invented by the owner of a City of London oyster bar in the early nineteenth century. Originally there were other variations: No2 (whisky), No3 (brandy), No5 (bourbon) and No6 (vodka). Not strictly a liqueur, Pimms is a gin-based drink, infused with aromatics and mixed with lemonade for consumption. Pimms has a powerful [...]
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A Serendipitous Discovery – In the early days, Scotch whisky was enjoyed straight from the still, without aging. Probably by accident – and certainly by the 1820’s – it was discovered that if the spirit was left in a wooden cask for a year or more (preferably more!) it would lose harshness, become richer and [...]
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In the early 1800’s, Antoine Amedie Peychaud, an apothecary, gained fame in New Orleans not for the drugs he dispensed, but for the compounding of a liquid tonic called bitters. These bitters, good for what ailed one, irrespective of malady, gave an added zest to the portions of cognac brandy he served in his pharmacy. [...]
