Flavour profile is AI-assisted and still being refined.
Tasting
How it drinks
Sight
Golden amber with brilliant clarity. Almost orchard-green tinge in daylight, visual suggestion of apple cask contribution.
Nose
Most unexpected Yoichi expression. Farmers Market leads with orchard: fresh-cut apple, apple blossom, bright green apple skin. Bakery offers apple turnover, baked apple, tarte tatin. Thread of Calvados-adjacent character. Smoke House peat relocated by fruit cask — now smells like smoked apple wood, a BBQ pit. Walk to Lighthouse salt air arrives last, clean and unexpected behind orchard character.
Palate
Fascinating conversation between distillery character and apple brandy. Cooked apple, apple cider, Calvados note. Bakery tarte tatin and cinnamon apple. Smoke House peat lighter, now carrying apple wood smoke character, almost sweet. Direct-fired weight carries fruit beautifully. Cinnamon and clove. Walk to Lighthouse salt cuts through sweetness.
Finish
Medium-long. Orchard character dominates early — cooked apple, apple skin, Calvados dryness. Smoke fades to apple wood embers. Cinnamon spice dries mid-finish. Walk to Lighthouse closes with chalk and salt air. Continually surprising: just when orchard sweetness takes over, salt and smoke return.
Tasting notes are AI-assisted and still being refined.
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