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Knockout nose combines crushed cherry, pungent minerality, flowers, spices and saline soil tones. Sweet and lush but shapely, with sappy acidity framing the mineral and red fruit flavors. Terrific inner-mouth energy here, not to mention perfectly buffered, noble tannins. Really rises on the back end, finishing ethereal, silky and seamless.
...beautiful and undertstated in its soft red fruit, tobacco, rosemary, underbrush and crushed flowers. This is a delicate, pretty Brunello that impresses for its overall balance and sense of harmony... Sweet red cherries, flowers and licorice linger on the textured finish.
...offers a really sweet-smelling bouquet followed by a drying mouthfeel... The bouquet is characterized by Christmas spice, cinnamon and mature cherry. The close is elegant and polished.
Warm, mature, but attractive nose. Very compact on the palate with grainy tannin and integrated acidity.