figgy

An unusual dated sherry from a high quality solera: rich, figgy taste.

Lingering late summer scent of fruit orchards: Very toasty, figgy, rich warm mouthcoating sweetness.

After passing her first royal tour of duty with flying colors, some present-wrapping and figgy pudding with the queen should be a breeze.

Still young, Semi-Glace (100-plus cases were made) is still fairly closed, showing a slightly figgy, peachy, apricotlike bouquet.

We shared a panforte (£3), that very monastic, very dense, figgy fruit and nut cake, which here contained a bit of cocoa, subtly enriching it.

Its strength is its subtlety, especially a delicately figgy flavor, but that subtlety can be appreciated only if the wine is drunk lightly chilled.

Wölffer's rich wine is somewhat figgy, redolent of dry pineapple, wood-inflected, mouth-filling and palate-cleansing; the texture is silken.

In this country we may not eat figgy Christmas pudding, but mince pie is still as American as . . . well, apple pie.

The taste is intensely figgy, and the anise is so delicate it is almost like a ghost sighting, more aromatically potent in the empty glass than in the mouth.

Its identically priced Taste the Difference Pedro Ximenez Sherry achieved the same award at the International Wine and Spirit Competition and provides, as you would expect, a sweeter, spicy, nutty and figgy style.

Unsulfured apricots are a real treat for a few weeks after harvest, with the best of both worlds, great flavor and chemical-free; but they soon darken and develop a brown-sugar, figgy flavor that I personally like less than that of sulfured apricots.

His exercise in vanity, faked sentiment and patent absurdity -- sure to join all those wretched animated shows as a "holiday perennial" -- is a figgy pudding of a show, whatever the heck a "figgy pudding" is.

Distinct differences develop over the years in wood but, for a good sense of the genre without completely breaking the bank, try Graham’s 20 Year Old Tawny Port (£35.49, Waitrose), with its long, perfumed, figgy flavours and tasty citrus finish that works brilliantly chilled with salted nuts.

Different to vintage port, tawnys come from careful blending of different wines kept in cask for an average of 10 years (or up to 40, depending on the size of your wallet) and the result is layers of satisfyingly mellow nutty and figgy flavours, becoming more acutely sherry- or even brandy- like with age.

The Gelato pudding Gelupo has created a Christmas pudding-shaped mound of boozy, figgy ice cream mixed with chocolate pudding chunks with a dollop of rich chocolate sauce in the centre.