Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
Sight
Deep burnished amber tending toward old mahogany. Legs cling to the glass with deliberate slowness, wide and oily — a signal of the direct-fired richness.
Nose
Furniture Maker arrives first — fresh-cut oak and beeswax. Then the Smoke House quietly opens: not a shout of peat but a low, confident drift of wood smoke and a whisper of old rope. Stone fruit — plum skins and bruised apricot. Sweet Shop sends dark chocolate, 72% cocoa. A coastal mineral note surfaces from the Walk to the Lighthouse, salt air carried inland. Beneath everything the Bakery offers warm brioche.
Palate
The direct-fired pot still announces itself: weight and oily viscosity that steam-heated distillate rarely achieves. Smoke House peat integrated like embers rather than bonfire. Sweet Shop dark chocolate deepens into mocha. Fresh plum, nectarine from the Farmers Market. Black pepper warming without heat. Round, full mouthfeel with marine chewiness.
Finish
Long, with genuine character. Smoke House peat dries slowly into ash and embers. Dark chocolate lingers as cocoa powder. Walk to the Lighthouse mineral — chalk and cool stone — emerges cleanly. Clarity within complexity. Not Islay's medicinal iodine; more the clean stone and smoked fish of a remote Scottish harbour.
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
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