First nosing passes find dry, slightly metallic, grainy, breakfast cereal scents; aroma turns acutely metallic after further aeration with scents of sawdust, wood chips and peanuts appearing in the final sniffing round. Palate entry is sweet, almost honeyed and surprisingly viscous; midpalate continues a bit too heavily in the sweet vein. Drinkable but ordintextured and dry; at midpalate the taste turns markedly sweeter and adds a charcoal, soot aspect that nicely balances the grain. Sturdy, sweet and sap-like finish.
First nosing passes find dry, slightly metallic, grainy, breakfast cereal scents; aroma turns acutely metallic after further aeration with scents of sawdust, wood chips and peanuts appearing in the final sniffing round. Palate entry is sweet, almost honeyed and surprisingly viscous; midpalate continues a bit too heavily in the sweet vein. Drinkable but ordintextured and dry; at midpalate the taste turns markedly sweeter and adds a charcoal, soot aspect that nicely balances the grain. Sturdy, sweet and sap-like finish.
First nosing passes find dry, slightly metallic, grainy, breakfast cereal scents; aroma turns acutely metallic after further aeration with scents of sawdust, wood chips and peanuts appearing in the final sniffing round. Palate entry is sweet, almost honeyed and surprisingly viscous; midpalate continues a bit too heavily in the sweet vein. Drinkable but ordintextured and dry; at midpalate the taste turns markedly sweeter and adds a charcoal, soot aspect that nicely balances the grain. Sturdy, sweet and sap-like finish.