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...impressive focus, depth and precision. Really complex pepper, spice-dusted blood plums, cocoa powder and blackberries. The tannins are super succulent, firm but not aggressive. The depth and fluid power here is staggering. Intensely structured and deeply flavored with blood plums, cocoa powder and graphite.
...superb, offering up beautiful aromas of plums, dark chocolate, asphalt, violets and grilled meat... On the palate, it's medium to full-bodied, rich and savory, with fine-grained tannins, a sapid core of fruit and a long, saline finish.
...notes of green herb, freshly peeled orange, raspberry, smoked meat and mineral. The palate is reserved in style but still quite flavorful, with seamless smoked-meat flavors that linger on the long, long finish. Lighter styled, it's all about subtlety and nuance but it delivers both in abundance.
...minty, tobacco, currants, and darker fruit-driven profile. Deep, rich and full-bodied, it has notable freshness and purity, fine tannin, and a great finish.
Brawny but well-structured, with generous blueberry, bitter chocolate and garrigue flavors that power toward big but resolved tannins.
Complex nose combines cherry, red berries, musky smoked meat and minerals, plus an intriguing balsamic quality. Very concentrated, savory and dry...penetrating, rising finish...