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Intensely aromatic nose offers a seductive array of red and dark berries, flowers, smoky minerals and black tea. Pliant raspberry and bitter cherry flavors gain weight with air, picking up sweeter black and blue fruit character and silky tannins. Very fresh on the impressively long finish, which repeats the lively red fruit flavors.
Black cherry, licorice, mineral and coffee flavors are subtle and harmonious in this well-integrated red, which has firm tannins, good balance and a long, fresh finish.
Very ripe dark fruit, figs, dry leaf and lots of savoury spices. The tannins are talc-like and it has little-yet-balanced acidity. Acceptable levels of nail varnish. The palate is hot-climate, the fruit a bit austere but still harmonious.