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...very appealingly ripe and glossy, red-cherry and plum aromas make for an enticing nose. The palate has a silky, smooth and fresh feel with bright, red-cherry flavors that carry long and fresh with some cocoa to close.
Lively raspberry and baking spice aromas are complemented by suggestions of rose oil and musky underbrush. Spicy and energetic on the palate, offering juicy red berry, bitter cherry and spicecake flavors that deepen slowly and turn sweeter through the midpalate...long, floral-driven finish that's given shape by dusty, well-knit tannins.
...rich palate of mulberry and blueberry fruit. The 40% new French oak employed brings in details of coffee and tobacco, and the tannins are ripe and fine grained...superbly crafted wine...