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Ripe red fruits, incense and Asian spices on the expansive nose, along with building mineral and floral overtones. Juicy and concentrated on the palate, offering alluringly sweet raspberry and cherry preserve, rose pastille and exotic spice flavors that show fine definition... Powerful but graceful as well...outstanding clarity and length.
Brambly purple plum and berry fruits come with a streak of graphite or pencil lead, which underscores the slightly grainy tannins. There's a whiff of fresh ground coffee also.
...howing refined and expressive raspberry, black tea and crushed stone flavors that dial in a tight focus on the way to medium-grained tannins.