Noemi Petersen
4.8
Bottle has been open for two weeks. Aroma: sweet brown sugar with barrel char, medicinal cherry, oak, dark fruits. Taste: viscous Luxardo cherry coats the tongue and lingers, intensifying. Cherry cola appears mid-palate, with vanilla and oak on the back end, something like graham cracker as well, maybe marshmallow, very deep notes of a baking slice with some clove and cinnamon, so rich. The finish has more of the dark fruits and oak. 2024 GTS comparison Aroma: sweet caramel, vanilla, rye spice, confectioners sugar. Taste: very dry, raisin and fig, burnt brown sugar, molasses, spearmint on the back end with lingering oaky tannins. Not as complex as the 2025, but well-balanced, full-flavored, solid oak.
