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This is laden with the ripe, expressive boysenberry, blackberry and plum flavors, while light tar, licorice and singed apple wood notes impart spine and added energy. Rock-solid.
... An expansive bouquet evokes ripe red/blue fruits, incense and olive paste, and a peppery nuance adds spiciness. Concentrated yet lively on the palate, offering sweet black raspberry and boysenberry flavors that pick up a savory hint of smoked meat on the back half. The blue fruit note repeats on a long, smooth, gently tannic finish that leaves a suggestion of salty olive behind.
...spicy, perfumed and beautifully complex red that offers both red and black fruits, lots of exotic pepper, and potpourri aromas and flavors. Forward, supple, charming and just delicious, with a plump, rounded texture.
Excellent blackcurrant syrup character on the nose – more than a tip of the hat to south Australian Shiraz here. Malleable tannin, crisp acid and excellent violet persistence.