9

Appearance - 9 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

500ml bottle, 2023 vintage. Dark fruit aroma with notes of caramel, toffee, brown sugar, vanilla, bourbon, oak and booze. Pours cloudy dark toffee brown colored with a thin tan head that has little retention and no lacing. Starts with rich dark fruit, brown sugar, toffee and oak flavors as well as having a rich, full body and sticky sweet mouthfeel. Finishes smooth with caramel, vanilla and bourbon flavors as well as a good boozy burn at the end that seems to improve the more it breathes. Very good but it might be best to stash it in the cellar longer, probably 5 years or so might do it.