Estimate
There's a distinctive overtone of black walnut here, adding a note of maturity and complexity to the core of wild strawberry and raspberry flavors, with aromatic details of dried porcino, green tea and spice box.
...leafy and fresh, with raspberry and cassis fruit dusted with dried herbs and spices. It's medium-bodied but ripe and creamy-textured on the palate, showing great balance between intensity and detail, then slowly fading on the long, slightly dusty finish.
...complex, highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe cherry and dark berries, pipe tobacco, vanilla, cola and exotic spices. Sweet, seamless and broad in the mouth, offering intense blackcurrant, cherry preserve, fruitcake and mocha flavors...floral and vanilla notes come back strong on an impressively tenacious finish that"s framed by supple, slow-building tannins.
...potpourri bowl of drying red fruits, herbs, pipe tobacco, licorice and warm earth make up the characters on both the nose and the palate. There's a firm grip of chalky tannins and a raspberry leaf tea finish.
Cassis, coffee and a deep night-air perfume on the nose. Dark-red flavours that mesh the spice of pink peppercorns with the sweet silkiness of roasted red pepper and the tang of raspberries. Some sage. Supple, wrap-around tannins.