Estimate
Exotically spiced red and blue fruit and floral aromas show outstanding clarity and take on a smoky mineral quality as the wine opens up. Juicy and penetrating on the palate, offering alluringly sweet raspberry, boysenberry, floral pastille and spicecake flavors that deftly meld concentration with delicacy...strikingly long, smooth finish features rounded tannins and emphatic spice and floral notes.
...olfactory stew of exotic spices...lush palate with blueberries, plums and sassafras highlights. The tannins are quite astringent, but proportionate.
Deeply structured and finely polished, with dynamic blueberry, cherry and savory spice flavors that build toward well-buffed tannins.
...tangerine peel, Earl Grey tea leaves, saline, cracked pepper and a touch of horse saddle over a core of Bing cherries, blackberries and cranberries...medium-bodied palate is more serious, with dark fruits, a gently chalky frame and great freshness, finishing long and nuanced.