8.1

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

50cl bottle pours an opaque, oily black with some ringing beige head. Leggy. Maple perfumes out of the glass, its raw and not syrupy maple, lots of barrel and booze notes, port mostly, some scotch too, dark cocoa, some dried fruits lurking. Flavor has some pencil lead and very dark and dry cocoa powder from the outset, dried fruit comes hard now, dates, prunes, dried blueberry even. There is a little black pepper, but I could be mistaking the alcohol for that. The maple envelopes at the end. Its sweet and luscious. Some port now too and tobacco. Finishes with that sweet, sticky maple but also some booze.