The nose enticed us with superficial sweet charms – candy cigarettes, banana chips, brown sugar and dried fruits – but we also detected cereal notes (muesli, sacks of grain) and apricot, grapefruit and Calvados fruitiness. The palate was a lip-smacking taste explosion of Rowntrees Tooty Frooties, strawberry bubblegum and pear eau de vie, with heavier notes of oak, white pepper and ginger on the finish.