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...showing very well, offering up an expressive bouquet of ripe cherries, cassis, warm spices and rich soil tones. On the palate, the wine is full-bodied, supple and textural, with a broad attack, good depth and energy at the core, powdery structuring tannins and a sapid finish.
...plenty of attractive black currant and boysenberry fruit underneath. The palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannins, fine acidity, great mineralité and a precise, edgy finish...
Sweet oaky spice adding to the fruit spice...a well of lovely fruit. Chewy texture...balanced... A powerhouse.
A ripe, fresh and unusually elegant, indeed even perfumed, nose displays notes of black raspberry, cassis and plenty of floral influences. There is both good focus and density to the quite powerful and vibrant medium weight flavors that culminate in a mildly warm, compact, rustic and somewhat short finish.