It’s the story of a polished mahogany table, bearing rum and raisin chocolate, cortado coffee and ginger beer. The palate has no-choke smoke – smooth and easy drinking; with various dried fruits, treacle, orange zest and peppered smoked mackerel. Adding water transports the table to the seaside, now with more complex resonances – marzipan and roasted nuts, orange soda and apricot, clafoutis, rose petals and potpourri.

The palate now – black pudding with apple sauce, Cuba Libre with orange slices and Christmas pudding sprinkled with crushed pepper and coal dust. After 12 years in ex-bourbon wood, we transferred this into a 1st fill, American oak Pedro Ximenez hogshead.