Colour: Deep gold with copper hues.
Nose: The alcohol is present and quite disturbing. Preserved fruits salad, floral honey, yellow and white peaches, green bananas, plums jam and apricots jam.
Mouth: The alcohol integration is not very good but the texture is quite oily. It’s powerful and hot. There are still a lot of fruits in there with a lot of freshly cut white and yellow peaches, pine wood freshness and hints of liquorice candies.
Finish: Long but still with a lot of alcoholic notes. preserved yellow peaches, acacia honey, cinnamon, white pepper and some more liquorice candies.

I like the profile but those omnipresent alcoholic notes and hotness is just too much to go higher in my notes.

Score: 87

Colour: Deep amber.
Nose: No alcohol presence at all so I’m pretty thrilled! The profile is quite monolithic and very powerful with a lot of bitter dark chocolate, ristretto, roasted coffee beans, noble wood and also some notes of old cigar box.
Mouth: Well well well, what a shame, the alcohol integration is not very good too but the texture is thick. Mineral and earthy notes, ripe peaches, acacia honey, old and dusty cigar box and also some noble wood notes gently wrapping everything.
Finish: Long. More in the spirit of the nose with dark chocolate, old cigar box and a lot of noble wood giving us its dryness. The alcoholic notes are also present is the finish with lingering alcohol hotness being prevalent.

I hoped that after smelling that wonderful nose the alcohol integration will be better on this one, but it’s not. The profile is less complex and more « In your face » but it’s still quite good.

Score: 86