Hints of sun-scorched bramble and violet perfume pristine blackberry and boysenberry flavors in this rich, stately wine... Firm, bracing tannins and a zesty mineral edge mark the finish.
...offers both richness and elegance. Awesome notes of currant, blackberries, garrigue, and crushed flowers all flow to a full-bodied wine that has ultra-fine tannins...edge to be found, incredible purity, and a great, great finish.
Intensely perfumed raspberry, boysenberry, potpourri and incense aromas show fine detail and pick up smoky mineral and exotic spice flourishes with air. Palate-staining red/blue fruit, spicecake, candied lavender and cola flavors... The floral and red fruit notes echo on the strikingly long, penetrating finish, which is framed by steadily building, polished tannins.
...chewy tannins on the finish...plenty of ripe berry fruit and ample weight and concentration...
...dark-berry nose here with roasted coffee and toasty spices, wrapped into the mix in a modern mode. The palate has a very rich core of ripe dark berries and such intense, ripe plums, too. Impressive.