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Cotswolds Reserve, 50%

Price: $100 Issue: Winter 2022 Reviewer: Jonny McCormick

Made from floor-malted barley grown in the Cotswolds and aged in first-fill bourbon and STR red wine casks, this knocks it out of the park. Glacé cherry, sultana, baked apple, white chocolate, dried strawberry, and vanilla sponge aromas. It’s sweet and thick-textured, juicy, and drinkable, with flavors of cherry pie, plum, strawberry, fudge, vanilla, and gentle peppery spices, then a deep spicy finish of baked cherries. (1,200 bottles for the U.S.)