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The palate is plush and dense, featuring intense exotic spices and black tea notes alongside blackberry cobbler, cassis and tar on the palate. The length, flavor density and elegance of the wine are sensational.
...loads of plum, Asian spice, lead pencil, and chocolate aromatics to go with a medium to full-bodied, nicely textured, concentrated style on the palate.
...elements of plum reduction, blackberry jus, crème de cassis and black cherry on the nose, with a firm backbone of French oak tones that waft with a soft note of chocolate ganache...full-bodied and firm on the palate, with drying tannins that grip the gumline as a sensations of bitter black tea and dusty black raspberry sway into focus. Finishing long and tight...
Cocoa, cedar, black cherry and barrel spice aromas lead in this 100% varietal, followed by full, luscious, ripe fruit flavors.