Nose: Expect ripe bananas, walnuts, hints of citrus and a home-baking quality

Palate: Perfectlymoreish with golden syrup sponge pudding, ginger spices and a vanilla quality

Finish: Long, with red apples, burnt sugar, banoffee pie and sugared almonds

Nose: Sweet lemon, Madeira cake, milk chocolate and green apple

Palate: Fresh malted barley, runny honey, icing sugar and nutmeg

Finish: Ginger biscuits, vanilla ice cream, golden syrup and more light spice

Nose: Rye bread in the oven with classic herbaceous spice in tow. Creamy vanilla plays its part on the nose too.
Palate: Zesty tropical fruit (think starfruit and mango), pine, cedar and honey'd porridge.
Finish: A subtle salinity lasts.

Nose: Complex, Richly spice, tannic and gingered with red
jammy fruit and cream

Palate: Combine the above with mouthcoating barley
sugar, vanilla, oak and honey

Finish: Loads more honey, grist and buttered homemade,
lightly burnt fruit scones

Nose: Anticipate a rich malted barley depth with gentle oak on the nose.

Palate: Mouth-coating and syrupy influences of honey and buttercream with baking spice and dried apricots

Finish: Long, warming finish of home baking and buttery oat biscuits

Ex-Bourbon, Virgin and Ex-Sherry Oak Casks

Nose: Mellow, carrying sweetened buttercream, barley sugar and maple syrup

Palate: Cough-drop spices show ahead of clean juicy barley, butterscotch and vanilla

Finish: Fantastic fumes form a smoky amalgam with all the flavours above

NOSE: Sherry trifle at Christmas, candied cherries and other dark fruits.

PALATE: Rich and creamy with an oily feel. Warming chocolate and fruit finish.

FINISH: Spicy and lingering.

Nose: Perfectly peated with gentle smoke and toasted oak whilst carrying a warming spice

Palate: More of the peat smoke moving towards a fruity ensemble of dark dried fruits

Finish: Long with a moreish smoke quality, kiln dried barley and apricot compote.

Nose: Initially spicy developing to a milky, cereal style with a fruity freshness

Palate: Oily and mouth-coating – salted caramel, black pepper and honey’d barley.

Finish: Long with charred oak and damp earth balanced by honeycomb sweetness

Nose
A smoky sweetness with coastal sea air and charred wood

Palate
A caramel sweetness for sure running to bacon crisps, seaweed and peppercorns

Finish
Long… maritime with seashells, bonfire embers and gentle spice

Nose: Stewing fruits with a spiced wood quality give way to a gentle smokiness

Palate: Sticky plum jam with juicy barley developing to peat smoke with a cinnamon warmth

Finish: Lingers wonderfully with a marmalade tang plus charred oak and creamy toffee

With a mahogany colour and orange highlights, Yzaguirre Classic Red Vermouth has an intense aroma with herby and spicy notes. Mild balsamic touches give it a pleasant and very unique structure. It has a good aromatic intensity in the mouth which balances out the acidity very well. Long, intense and slightly bitter aftertaste.

Gonzalez Byass has relaunched a historic brand of vermouth, La Copa. Based on the original 19th-century recipe, this is made using a blend of eight-year-old oloroso and Pedro Ximénez sherries. Flavoured with botanical including wormwood, clove, orange peel, nutmeg, angelica and quinine, this is a sweeter style of vermouth that works well in cocktails.