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Loaded with blackberry and dark-cherry aromas and flavors with chocolate...full, rich and concentrated... Balanced for the weight.
...fresh, nicely focused, medium to full-bodied effort that has classic crème de cassis fruit as well as notes of lead pencil, violets, subtle oak, and a gravelly, earthy minerality.
The coffee, cherry, dark chocolate, vanilla, mushroom and fresh herb aromas provide appeal. The palate brings juicy, plentiful cherry and barrel spice flavors, with brawny tannins backing it all up. Coffee notes linger on the finish. It has a nice yum factor and a long life in front of it.
Open-knit and lively, with layered black raspberry and dusky spice flavors that take on richness and structure toward refined tannins.
Redcurrant, plum, chocolate, tobacco, red licorice and spicy oak on the nose, plus an intriguing hint of stony minerality. Plump and fine-grained in the mouth... Flavors of red berries, dark cherry, spices and red licorice show good medicinal reserve. Finishes with slightly dusty tannins, good grip and nice length.