A nice orange sponge cake, Christmas baking spices, caramelized nuts, raisins, chocolate and lemon-peel form a very smooth and intensely deep nose that has a very sherry heavy background. The palate is expectedly sweet but a lot less oily than anticipated. It is spices cooked in maple syrup with strong orange oil and fresh lemon. Then some cold liquid chocolate. The sherry influence dominates here too and also defines the medium long finish. Nice and spicey with a lot of sherry cask influences to explore.