Typically sexy, rich, loaded with fruit, and opulent...copious quantities of jammy blackberry and cassis fruit intertwined with licorice, cigar smoke, and spice box characteristics with a hint of herbs. ...
A rich, beautiful wine. Dark color, with blackberry, smoke and coffee aromas. Full-bodied and very firm, with silky tannins and a caressing finish. Muscular.
...intense flavors of redcurrant and tobacco carry through on the persistent, firmly tannic finish.
Tasted on at least three occasions and always in the frame. Ripe, dark berry aromas, soft, layered, velvety fruit, medium acidity, fine tannic structure...