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This dark, muscular wine displays black fruit suggesting boysenberries, loganberries and sweet blackberries, with the juicy acidity to match. There's a streak of café crème and some defining stem flavors on the finish.
Bright and tangy, with fine-grained tannins around a lively core of raspberry and blackberry flavors set on an open-textured frame. Has presence and lingers pleasantly.
Potent, mineral-tinged aromas of red and dark berries, anise, musky sassafras and woodsmoke carry a subtle floral overtone. Juicy and precise on the palate, offering subtle raspberry and bitter cherry flavors that turn sweeter on the back half. Shows very good focus and spicy lift on the long, floral-accented finish, which features supple tannins and a touch of sweet vanilla.
Shows some attractive dried-strawberry and lemon character. Medium body, fine tannins and a clean finish.
...black cherry, red plum and cassis scents...palate is medium-bodied with grainy tannin, good backbone, a little earthiness coming through with a grainy texture on the structured, "cool" finish that is nicely detailed.