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Powerful, spice-accented scents of ripe dark fruits, licorice, candied violet and smoky minerals, with a hint of coconut in the background. Juicy and supple on the palate, offering intense black and blue fruit, bitter cherry and mocha flavors that are sharpened by a spicy suggestion of cracked pepper. Becomes sweeter and more lively with air and finishes velvety and very long, with harmonious tannins adding shape and gentle grip.
It's a warm-climate, rich, plush Shiraz, with a velvety mouthfeel and lingering savory notes on the finish.
A warm, early harvest has delivered a wine with more dried, baked blackberries and plums...palate is assuredly rich and round with blackberry and dark plum-pastry flavors, layered on silky, dense and rich, ripe tannins.
Inky-hued, it oozes chocolate, anise, olives, dried violets and black pepper. The fruit aromas arrive later, in the form of cherries and blackberries. The palate is rich and textured, a finely wound line of granular tannins around plush berry fruit and a long finish.
The cherry and plum flavors have good intensity and appealing traction from dense tannins and notes of black licorice and tobacco. The tannins firm up further on the appealingly chewy finish, where details of clay and dried olive emerge.
It’s a ripe, sexy beauty that gives up tons of blackberry and black cherry fruits intermixed with notions of spice box, licorice, and chocolate. It’s medium to full-bodied, has tons of fruit and texture, and is a pleasure bent beauty that stays balanced and incredibly drinkable.