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The fragrance and poise...are exciting...fine, complex spices and tar. Some toasty oak...there's a tarry, black-fruit element with some graphite. This has richness and balance. Super-concentrated blackberries and sweetly spiced plum-fruit flavors combine with fine tannins. Very dense, super fresh, muscular, lithe, sturdy and assertive...
...baked cherries, blackberry preserves and prunes with spice box and incense nuances. The palate is dense and rich with dried berries and fruit compote flavors accented with baking spices and framed by grainy tannins, finishing long and surprisingly gentle.
...ample weight, richness and texture. Alluring notes of Christmas spices and plum pudding mark the nose, while the flavors continue the dark theme, picking up hints of cola and roasted meat before finishing somewhere between creamy and velvety, spicy and peppery.
...Heady scents of dark berry liqueur, singed plum and incense, with notes of vanilla and smoky minerals... Shows excellent clarity and lift to the palate-staining blueberry, cola and candied lavender flavors, with juicy acidity giving the wine spine. Deftly marries richness and vivacity and finishes sweet, broad and extremely long, with solid punch and fine-grained tannins.
Focused and open-textured, this is brimming with blueberry, currant, licorice and smoke character, framed by fine, crisp tannins and finishing with persistence and expressiveness.