...beautiful and certainly makes the most of the vintage. Black cherries, red currants, cedary spice, dried herbs, and floral notes all flow to a medium to full-bodied blend that has flawless balance, ultra-fine tannins, no hard edges, and a great finish.
Bold but beautifully complex on the nose...offers black cherry, baked boysenberry and tart plum skin on the smooth nose. The palate is framed in a focused, dense but forgiving structure, offering flavors of baked pastry and ripe dark fruits...
Highly perfumed aromas of ripe red berries take on a suave floral element and a spicy nuance as the wine opens up. Shows superb energy and definition in the mouth, offering sweet raspberry, cherry and lavender pastille flavors that show impressive depth and no rough edges. Firms up on the finish, picking up deeper licorice and bitter chocolate notes and fine-grained, mounting tannins.
...opens with lovely, concentrated dried cranberries and red cherries, raspberry preserves, strawberry jam and blueberry coulis scents with accents of dried tobacco leaves, pink peppercorn, blood orange and dried flowers with a mineral streak. Medium-bodied, it has a silky-smooth texture and wonderful layering of amaro and earth-tinged fruits, with pixelated tannins and just enough juicy freshness to lift the finish.