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The palate is medium-bodied with succulent ripe tannin, impressive depth...
...sweet, silky and dense on the palate, showing considerable power as well as some spicy high tones. Saline, serious wine with an obvious sweet oak component and very good sneaky length.
There is plenty of minerality that adds lift to the relatively supple middle weight flavors that are shaped by fine-grained tannins, all wrapped in a toasty finish...
Richly perfumed, warmly inviting. Taut and dry and firmly structured though the bones are fine. Fresh and scented on the mid palate and then drier again on the finish. Very very long. So much more to come...