TASTING NOTES: Color: Pale gold. Nose: Both subtle and powerful. Vegetal (agave, malted barley), lemony, saline, and, of course, empyreumatic (coal, fuel), smoky, earthy, rooty (gentian), and peaty, the aromatic palette gradually becomes floral (lily, lily of the valley, white lilac). As it aerates, mineral scents of bitumen and slate fill the olfactory space. Palate: Rich, dynamic. A peat that turns out to be oilier than the nose suggested initially takes center stage. However, it is quickly followed by flavors of lavender honey, fresh walnut, and dark chocolate. Then, much like the nose, the palate becomes increasingly empyreumatic and ashy. Finish: Long, refined. Fermenting (barley porridge, peaty mash), the finish takes us to breathe deeply in a maritime and iodized air. Then, pierced by the rays of a dazzling sun, it lifts us up, evoking the chalky character of a cliffside.