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Very ripe and dense with lots of dried-fruit, spice and cedar character. Some cigar box, too. Full-bodied, velvety and rich. Powerful.
Bright and generous...darkly concentrated appearance and bold aromatic intensity... The bouquet is redolent of blackberry, cherry confit, exotic spice, cola and dark chewing tobacco.
...dense, burly style, displaying cherry, iron, leather, earth, tobacco and spice flavors...complex and long.
Plummy aromas mix in the glass with whiffs of pressed blue flower, vanilla and mocha. The taut structured palate offers dried black cherry, coconut, licorice, espresso and black pepper while firm fine-grained tannins provide the framework...note of pipe tobacco closes the tight finish.
Big nose with hints of fruit cake and minerals. Sweet palate tightly packed with tannins...rich fruit closes up on the finish...