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Hugely perfumed, mineral- and spice-tinged cherry, dark berry, vanilla and floral oil qualities on the finely detailed nose. Supple and deeply concentrated but animated as well, offering cherry liqueur, black raspberry, spicecake and candied violet flavors... Finishes on an alluringly sweet note, with superb persistence and polished, steadily building tannins lend shape and solid grip.
Heavily charred aromas of wood smoke and campfire dominate a nose with base-level berry fruit scents. Size and power are plastered all over the palate of this woody, tannic warm-vintage Ribera, which tastes of smoky blackberry and tobacco. A note of vanilla softens a hard-driving finish.
...ripe, bloody, almost meaty bouquet of smoked red and black fruits, iron, cedarwood, lavender, and dried flowers...full-bodied, has building tannins, beautiful purity, and certainly no shortage of length on the finish.
This generous red has thick, polished tannins that surround the cherry reduction, coffee and orange peel flavors, underscored with loamy earth, leather and spice notes. Powerful and refined.