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Dense bluish/purple color to the rim...floral notes dominating the wine’s aromatics. Violets and rose petals followed by blueberry and blackberry fruit as well as some crushed rock in a medium to full-bodied, beautifully pure, suave style
... comes from sites just south of Diamond Mountain, yet it offers a very different style in its black and blue fruits, bay leaf, spring flowers, damp earth, tobacco and mineral bouquet. With incredible purity and intensity, full-bodied richness and power, integrated acidity, and silky tannin, it needs 2-4 years of cellaring but will evolve for 2-3 decades as well. (December 2017)
An attractive, nuanced wine, with striking aromatics, silky tannins and mid-weight structure...lavors are decidedly bright and floral, while the expression of fruit tends towards the redder end of the spectrum.