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...Lots of bloody black and blue fruit, black olive, beef blood, and pepper herb aromas and flavors. Full-bodied, rich, and concentrated, it has silky tannins and shows surprising elegance and finesse on the palate...
...opens to a generous black-fruited nose of black spices, dusty plum, savory olive and blackberry jus aromas. With a structured juicy core of fruit on the palate, the wine offers up a generous, full-bodied expression that lingers long with a hot and tannic finish that will age for more than a decade.
...Wild, musky aromas of plum and caramel plus a whiff of minerality. A very silky, mouthfilling style of wine--especially considering the higher-elevation site--with its dark raspberry and tar flavors enlivened by a note of flinty minerality....Finishes with round tannins and noteworthy persistence...