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Scents of raspberry, minerals, spices and violet. Intensely flavored, youthfully tight and gripping, conveying terrific energy ... flavors of black plum and berries...substantial fine-grained tannins and outstanding length.
Spicy, fresh... ripe nose blends together more deeply pitched notes of plum, violet, plum, sandalwood .... There is impressive richness to the seductively textured yet quite powerful full-bodied flavors that possess excellent density
Bursts from the glass with a flamboyant bouquet of mulberry, black cherry, wood smoke and a lavish framing of new oak. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, concentrated and intense, with a classically firm chassis of tannin.
A mixture of red and blue fruit, perhaps more floral than I have discerned in previous vintages, hint of crushed violet surfacing … palate is medium-bodied with juicy ripe fruit with commendable density, a little more sinew and backbone