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Powerful, highly perfumed red and blue fruit, incense, mocha and vanilla aromas are enlivened by a spicy nuance and a hint of pungent flowers...velvety in texture, offering appealingly sweet boysenberry, black raspberry and cherry cola flavors... Plays brawn off energy with a sure hand and finishes impressively long and sweet, with gentle tannic grip, repeating blue fruit character and a hint of cola.
...aromas of ripe black cherries that follow through to the palate, where they roll rich, fresh and smooth. The oak is nicely played here, adding plenty of structure and length, yet leaving the fresh black cherries to lead the long finish.
Layered and complex, this punches up blackberry and black-cherry fruit with seams of tobacco and sea salt chocolate...dusted with baking spices...
...scents of cranberry sauce, woodsmoke, forest floor, wild blackberries and dried herbs...palate is medium-bodied, concentrated and earthy, firmly framed but fresh and flavorful, finishing long.