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The wine combines freshness, power elegance, and great intensity, all wrapped into a full-bodied, concentrated personality with phenomenal persistence on the palate. Remarkably pure, but neither over-done nor over-ripe...
...emphasis on plum, leather, wet earth, cedar, tobacco, coffee and mineral. A wine like none other, and unhindered by some modernistic oak treatment. Fabulously authentic stuff.
Roasted red plum, cherry liqueur and grilled meat on the nose; superripe but not over the top. Then thick, sweet, deep and young, with a compelling flavor of creme de cassis Powerful, dense, classic grenache en surmaturite.