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The nose combines black currant sauce, smoked pork, cracked black pepper, crushed purple flowers, wild thyme and caramel. The palate is coated in lavish, polished yet still firm tannins and a vibrant acidity that carries flavors of black-plum pudding and peppercorns.
A bruiser, but with a sense of polish and focus. Blackberry, crushed rock and smoked meat aromas combine with deeply complex blueberry, licorice and pepper flavors that build toward big but ripe tannins.
A complex, highly perfumed bouquet displays ripe dark berry and cherry qualities... Smooth and broad on the palate, offering concentrated black raspberry, bitter cherry and floral pastille flavors... Brawny yet surprisingly lithe, closing with chewy tannins and outstanding, dark-berry-dominated persistence.