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Smoked black fruits, chocolate, spice, and an almost pot roast-like meatiness all emerge from the glass, and this beauty is ripe and powerful on the palate, with loads of minerality, full-bodied richness, and a tight, concentrated, powerful style.
...notes of roasted plums, blackberry, cassis, grilled meats and subtle espresso roast. On the palate, it's full-bodied, ample and juicy, with a layered, concentrated mid-palate and lovely energy and cut, framed by fine, chalky tannins.
A highly perfumed bouquet evokes ripe dark berries, violet oil, olive and smoky minerals, complicated by a sexy floral topnote. Alluringly sweet, deeply concentrated black and blue fruit, floral pastille and spicecake flavors become more lively as the wine opens up. Displays superb definition and powerful dark berry thrust on an impressively long, sweet finish shaped by smooth, slow-building tannins.
Muscle meets polish, with deep flavors of blackberry, semisweet chocolate and smoky peppered beef that build richness toward big but refined tannins.