...explodes from the glass with juicy dark cherries, tobacco, plums, spices and grilled herbs...quite compact...Readers who can be a little patient will be rewarded with a superb wine. Anticipated maturity: 2018-2030.
A smooth style, with espresso, dried currant, cedary oak, anise and loamy earth, ending with a long, tannic finish that offers notes of dried herb, sage and black tea.
...complex scents of black raspberry, brown sugar, truffle and underbrush. Rich, sweet and lush, but with lovely minerality energizing the flavors of blueberry and brown spices...serious, youthfully sullen tannins...require...bottle aging.