Cask No. 16.99 Sweet & Zesty rum and banana are tempered

rum and banana are tempered by dry woody spices

Our extended afternoon tea began in a truly civilised manner with strong earl grey tea

204 - First snowdrop of the year

raisins and sweet wine and molasses cake from Madeira

Cask No. 16.99 Sweet & Zesty rum and banana are temperedThere was plenty of smoke here but not of the peaty variety as if we were stoking the fire on a steam locomotive, mingled with the distinctive mechanical, oily, dusty and dirty smell of the drivers cab. Very sooty on the palate, we felt like coal miners after working down the pit, enjoying eating a fudge doughnut held in our blackened hands. Water added the woody smoke of smouldering oak shavings next to sardines in a spicy tomato sauce, olives