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...boasts a deeper ruby/purple hue to go with thrilling notes of violets, tapenade, lavender, and peppered meats, all supported by a gorgeous core of ripe darker fruits. Medium to full-bodied, flawlessly balanced, and with building structure...
...stunning array of aromas with precision and finesse, brilliantly displaying dusty black raspberry, juicy currant and cassis with a kiss of oak to frame the picturesque fruit. Medium-bodied and with 13% alcohol, the palate offers immense pleasure with a regal mouthfeel, mineral tension, just-ripe red fruit tones and a soft tannic edge. The succulent acidity keeps the wine fresh in the mouth with a food-friendly expression across the elongated and evolving finish.
Deeper-pitched aromas of raspberry, smoked meat and brown spices lifted by a floral element. Supple, fine-grained, spicy and nicely delineated; the best of these Syrahs in concentration, inner-mouth energy and grip, and a bit sweeter than the rest. Again, the tannins are wonderfully suave, but this wine also possesses more supporting material and ripeness...very subtle, building finish shows terrific energy and grip...
Aromas of raspberry, flower, smoked meat and herb lead to fresh, acid-driven flavors. The tannins give a firm squeeze.
Sweet and ripe red fruit mixes with pine and tobacco on the nose. Full-bodied with fine tannins. Plum and baked black cherry. Vanilla and ground spice as well. Nicely balanced.
The smell of wet, crushed gravel gives way to a satisfyingly chewy, handsome wine. Complex, striated, bitterness plaiting into leather into herbs into ripe prune skin and Saskatoon berry fruit. Powerful flavours and close-knit tannins, and yet there is an intricate, almost delicately perfumed freshness: lemon verbena, grapefruit oil. Really intriguing. Velvety, dense finish with layers of fresh minty leaves.