Estimate
Overflowing with elegance and varietal purity...offers a crystalline and focused nose with elements of dark cherry, baked earth and dusty flowers with a harmonious and floral lift...considerable restraint, exuding elegance and finesse with succulent red fruit and subtly spiced potpourri tones.
Musky black currants, dried violets, grilled herbs and mocha...textural animal, velvety-smooth with sleek contours and polished ripe black fruits. It leaves a staining of primary concentration and subtle coating of fine tannins...
...big, rich, meaty, powerful beauty offering copious amounts of ripe black fruits as well as ground pepper, chocolate, graphite, and spicy oak all soaring from the glass. It packs a punch, as always, with its ripe, sexy style, yet it shows the cooler, elegant style of the vintage beautifully and is balanced, has ripe tannins, and a great finish.
Aromas of dark berries, ground pepper and leather. Full-bodied with chewy tannins. The palate is rich, but there is lift and good definition within the fruit profile. Nuanced. Black licorice and spice.