Spirits

Pommeau de Normandie is made by fortifying apple juice with Calvados. The result is a sweet, warming spirit with alluring baked apple and spice flavours. Odin’s Spirit uses a bittersweet variety of apples to give balanced freshness to its Pommeau de Normandie. Fragrant apple flavours are heightened by hints of lavender and spice.–jb

17%

Dried apple, cinnamon, nutmeg, lavender

Baked apple, marzipan, candied lavender, [75.00]

Smooth and glossy

18%

Hay, pear, melon, dried star fruit and flowers

Poached pear, peach preserve, dried flowers and fruits, hay, [140.00]

Chocolate macaron

Ratafia de Champagne is a sweet drink that is a fresh wine grape juice – Pinot Noir in this case – fortified with high-strength alcohol to 18%-plus strength. After fortification, this version is aged in a solera system, launched in 2005, for about three years. Medium yellow with the aromas of hay, pear, melon, dried star fruit and flowers. Sweet with medium acidity, soft texture and medium body, with poached pear, pear preserve, dried flowers and fruit to medium finish. Drink now.–ir

43%

The Pràban na Linne “Pràban” blended Scotch whisky offers subtle hints of leather, smoke, and dried citrus peel on the nose, gaining in intensity over time. The palate is more immediately arresting with its spiced fruitcake and caramel nuances that temper the lifted, slightly fiery finish.– jb

Whisky

Smoke, leather, butterscotch, dried citrus peel

Caramel, fruitcake, mixed spice

Flavourful and fiery