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This offers a deeply spicy nose with cinnamon-dusted plums and red and darker cherries. The palate has a riper feel with black cherries and some riper, darker plums. Chocolate also framing the finish, which is wrapped up by very suave, supple tannins.
...a smooth, forward and inviting wine... Lovely red berry and cherry fruit is highlighted by nuanced threads of tea and tobacco.
Tightly focused and well-bred, with refined cherry and rose petal aromas that open to harmonious strawberry, mineral and orange peel accents, finishing with fine tannins.
Expansive red and dark berry, incense and cola aromas, along with smoky oak spice and vanilla notes on the perfumed nose. Palate-coating Chambord, cherry cola and spicecake flavors show excellent clarity and become sweeter as the wine opens up. Lingers with impressive persistence on the finish, which is supported by smooth tannins.
...a brown sugar and cinnamon-laced nose, opening to a core of black cherry and black berry jam with touches of crushed blueberries and toasted coconut. Medium to full-bodied, it's chock-full of warm black fruits wrapped in a layer of baking spice, with firm, grainy tannins and wonderful juicy acidity, finishing very long and very spicy.
Ample wood influence is noticeable but not intrusive on the very pretty and overtly spicy dark pinot fruit nose that exhibits additional breadth with its notes of violets and briar. The sleek, intense and well-detailed medium weight flavors possess a moderately refined palate impression before culminating in a slightly warm if beautifully complex and sneaky long finale.