Essi Avellan: Bright, glossy onion-skin color. Unclean and earthy first bottle. Second slightly better. Smoky-earthy, peachy nose, with marmalade and leather. Unpleasant. 10

Simon Field: Light color flatters to deceive what is an oxidized barley-sugar nose, creamy, rich, and indulgent. The palate maintains the theme with generous dosage but a rather pinched and bitter ending. Sweetness and light at the start but a less-than-joyful denouement. Clear glass is held up as a possible culprit in the bottle variation when the second bottle is sampled; much fresher and with more defined and crisper fruit. 14

Tom Stevenson: Very pale salmon, with more hints of orange than pink, which, because it is a Non-Vintage, is more probably from clear glass than entirely age. First bottle quite noticeable DMDS ruining the nose, probably clear glass. I expected the second bottle to be the same, but it was much fresher on the nose. However, there was a hint of DMDS on the palate, which speaks volumes to me of the sort of bottle variation you get from clear glass. They nearly always have some hint of light-struck somewhere. 7