Bottle. Golden chestnut, offwhite foam ring. Intense plum in red wine aroma, balsamic, christmas spices. Medium full body, dry wooden leathery mouthfeel. Plums and berries (blackberry, blueberry skin), dry spices, fitting vinegar tartness, brandy, salt, chocolate. Complex, intense, but moreish as well.

Bottle picked up from Beyond Beer Webshop, Hamburg. Had this Thursday 25th February 2021, listening Tom Robinson sitting in for Marc Riley on 6Music, we had a Spaghetti Bolognese. Pours deep reddy brown colour the head swiftly departed. Aroma of sour cherries, balsamic vinegar and wet, musty wood and a red wine that has been opened and slightly oxidised. Taste is more of the above, tart and tangy but surprising drinkabilty for the abv, it really hides the abv marvellously well.

Bottle. Rather clear ruby color with white head. Aroma is tobacco, leather, cherries, red wine, very complex. Taste is leathery, vineous, mild tannins, very complex. Juicy-oily mouthfeel with natural carbonation. Very good!