A full-bodied red with lots of rich dark fruit, meat and toasted oak. Creamy and round. Fruity astringency to this that gives energy and focus. Mineral and salted-caramel notes at the end.
Plums, blackberries, ground pepper, and graphite notes all emerge from the 2019 Aspire, which has plenty of background chocolaty oak, full body, ripe yet certainly present tannins, and a great finish.
...broody tones of cast iron and blue fruits, with wafts of purple flowers and aniseed...full-bodied palate is well-framed, with grainy tannins and fresh acidity, and it finishes minerally.
Generous and richly structured, with dynamic raspberry and blueberry flavors that take on dark chocolate and smoked pepper accents as this builds toward medium-grained tannins.
Ripe red and blue fruits, incense, potpourri, mocha and exotic spices on the intensely perfumed nose. Alluringly sweet boysenberry, black raspberry, oak spice and lavender violet pastille flavors are energized by smoky mineral and cracked pepper flourishes. Shows impressive depth but comes off lively, showing strong, spicy thrust on a long, youthfully tannic and floral-dominated finish.