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...great depth, length and power. Sour cherries, flowers, dried fruit and bark. Full and layered with intense, polished tannins... Goes on for minutes.
Almond paste, milk chocolate, cinnamon and nutmeg complement ripe red cherry aromas and flavors. Closes long, creamy, nicely textured and multifaceted.
A light touch of oak is well-integrated with the cherry, plum and wild herb flavors in this powerful yet balanced red. A distinctive saline quality plays out on the long finish.
...offers hints of exotic spice, savory tobacco and even a touch of talc powder or buttered popcorn... Indeed, this wine's lactic signature remains strong. This adds to the distinctively creamy, viscous and rich nature of the full-bodied mouthfeel.
Menthol, pine resin and forest-floor aromas mix with whiff of iris. Firmly structured...palate offers dried black cherry, licorice and black tea alongside assertive, fine-grained tannins. It closes on a coffee-bean note. .
Minty cherry nose and minty cherry fruit palate with zesty acidity. A real charmer with bags of crunchy tannins.