Estimate
A heady, complex bouquet displays scents of fresh red berries, Asian spices, musky underbrush and cola. Sappy, penetrating and focused, offering sweet black raspberry and cherry-cola flavors that pick up a smoky nuance with air. Closes sweet and very long, with a vibrant spiciness that lingers on.
...very fresh nose of cool but ripe red berries, briar and soft earth and spice nuances...good verve to the rounded and caressing middle weight flavors that possess solid depth on the attractively textured mid-palate, all wrapped in a delicious and bright finish.
...displays resinous overtones that are almost coniferous, and which not only slightly obscure the scents of red berries but also connect with a certain opacity on the palate to its fresh cherry and red raspberry fruit. This is still sappy and persistent... The tartness of fruit comes out as slightly detached in the finish, and is allied to smoky as well as resinous notes stemming from oak.