Nose is soft with baked bread, spice (maybe ginger bread) and some dark fruit sweetness like raisins or prunes. The taste is quite harsh at first, white pepper but that fades to reveal a complex and sweet interior, golden syrup, honey, even malt. A long oak but not harsh finish, better at the end than the beginning. With water I found it thinned out and the oakiness came up to the point of being bitter, the delicious sweet notes were masked by oak. Definately pass on the water on this.
