Estimate
...full-bodied, creamy and plush, showing remarkable richness, length and purity, without excessive ripeness or weight. Cherry and peach fruit picks up hints of dried spices, thyme and bay leaf on the long finish.
Ripe but restrained blackberry and plum contrast penetrating notes of earth, anise and smoke... It's bold yet sleek in texture, framed by velvety tannins.
...gives up hints of barrique in its ripe blackberry, violets, cherries, spicy, earthy aromas and flavors.
Ripe red and dark berries, peppery spices and a hint of garrigue on the powerful, mineral-accented nose. Supple, sweet and broad on the palate, offering juicy black raspberry, lavender pastille and spicecake flavors that become more energetic with air. Powerful as well as lively, showing solid back-end thrust and velvety tannins that shape the floral-driven finish.