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...striking perfume of roasted meats, violets, graphite, blackberries, raspberries, and cherry liqueur...smoky, intense, full-bodied, muscular, concentrated, layered, and dominated by ripe fruit...wealth of extract, glycerin, and fruit.
...Very rich, complex dark fruit flavors are superripe but not at all sugary or over the top...Very concentrated and superbly aromatic in the mouth. Finishes very long, with ripe, strong tannins...
Blockbuster Côte-Rôtie that also delivers refinement. Full-bodied, inky-black, with baby fat enveloping the ripe tannins, it combines blackberry, horse stable, grilled meat and lemon notes. Long, chewy finish suggests short-term cellaring.