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Pure, saline-driven and tense...shows a more focused, chiseled expression... Time in the glass brings out the wine's body, textural richness and overall density...
...smoking good. Possessing awesome complexity and depth in its framboise, cassis, spice, forest floor and leafy, green herb aromatics, it hits the palate with an understated, yet building style that carries beautiful richness, sweet, polished tannin and surprising length...
...with notes of red cherries, wild berries, aromatic bark, subtle sweet spices and savory bass notes. On the palate, it's full-bodied, ample and layered, with a generous core of ripe fruit, beautifully ripe, velvety tannins and succulent balancing acids. Attractively multidimensional and complete...seductive and voluptuous...
This is at once aromatically quite ripe but also quite floral with a lovely panoply of spice elements adding breadth to the mostly red and dark berry fruit aromas. There is excellent volume, mid-palate density and richness to the borderline lavish flavors that coat the palate with dry extract on the moderately warm finish that really fans out...