SMWS tasting notes: Very prickly to start, then develops into zingy boiled sweets – acid drops, lemon sherbets; fresh overall, but with an oaky base, especially apparent on the tongue. Water introduces canvas and plastic (new trainers), warm leatherette (the interior of a new Jaguar), the sweet freshness now sour green apples and travel sweets dusted with icing sugar. The taste is sweet, then immediately sour; spritely, with mulled wine spices and a warming finish. This would drink well straight from the freezer in a chilled martini glass. Drinking tip: A bracing aperitif. Distilled 22 September 2003 and matured in a first-fill barrel. 156 total bottles. Tasted at Saratoga Whiskey Club Tasting #8 - SMWS.