4.399 Fish platter on a clyde puffer
$435.00 inc. GST
37 in stock
Description
Tasting Panel notes
A breath of fresh sea air filled the nose, and the scent of creels, crab apples and wicker picnic baskets evoked a day’s excursion along shell-strewn beaches. A seafood platter of mussels and rollmops was unpacked on deck in the salty breeze. The palate was oily, briny and complex, layering honey-smoked ham, tart candied fruits and peppered mackerel with wasabi peas and a whisper of coal dust, like a niçoise salad served aboard a Clyde puffer. With water, hibiscus jam washed over mussel shells and samphire, while the palate turned sweet and herbal, delivering dill pickles, charred lemon salmon pastrami and a medicinal finish of plum and old-school cough syrup on burnt toast. After spending 12 years in an ex-bourbon hogshead, this was transferred to a first fill Pedro Ximénez-seasoned barrique for the remainder of its maturation.
