This is a powerful wine, with wood aging that adds richness to the dense tannins...
Immediate depth to the aromas of dark cherries, plums and blackberries with subtly spicy and cedary oak amid stony, minerally accents. The palate has immense depth and presence without relying on brute force. This is all about charm and fluidity. Superb wine.
...a beautiful nose of black forest cake, violets, cassis and tilled soil with wafts of garrigue and potpourri. Medium-bodied, very fine and elegant with great intensity of restrained, earthy flavors, it has a long, savory finish.
Enticing, with a light mulled spice note moving amid the red and black currant fruit, while flashes of bramble, alder, juniper and tobacco skitter through...lengthy in feel through the finish, with latent grip and a smoldering tobacco detail.
It offers delightfully pure, beautifully defined black cherry and blueberry fruit; pressed violet aromas gradually unfurl with aeration. The palate is very well balanced with crisp tannin, which is perhaps still a little rigid but provides a symmetrical framework upon which the pure, graphite-tinged black fruit rests.
A big, bombastic wine from this estate that offers serious amounts of sweet currants, blackberry jam, licorice and oak...has beautiful depth of fruit, a thick, opulent texture and sweet tannin...
Sweet and round and utterly pleasing. Easy minerality. Chewy end.