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...smoky notes and briary raspberry fruit on the nose, then delivers ample creamy richness on the palate and a long, mocha-tinged finish.
Solidly ripe and fleshy, with a big ball of cherry compote and plum reduction flavors wrapped in red licorice notes. Fruit pumps through the finish, picking up singed apple wood and warm tobacco details.
A highly perfumed, expansive bouquet evokes ripe red berries, Indian spices and candied lavender, along with a smoky mineral topnote. Juicy, focused and impressively concentrated, offering intense black raspberry, cherry and spicecake flavors that become more lively on the back half. Clings with excellent tenacity on the youthfully tannic finish, leaving star anise and floral notes behind.
Very dark, glowing crimson. Glacé cherry nose. Then some rather overripe notes and some stringy texture with leathery tannins and some greenness.