Estimate
... offers more minerality and salinity as well as darker fruits, graphite, smoke, and scorched earth characteristics. It’s tighter, more backward, and Burgundian, with terrific concentration and purity as well as balance.
...Unctuous and creamy on the palate, with terrific depth... Sweet red cherry pie, blood orange, pomegranate and wild flowers all race out of the glass...
... opens with a medium ruby-purple color and notes of warm cherries, mulberries and wild blueberries with touches of dusty soil, dried herbs and tree moss. The medium to full-bodied palate has a good, solid structure of ripe, grainy tannins and a refreshing line carrying the fruit to a long, perfumed finish.
This is dense and layered with lots of ripe berry and strawberry aromas. Medium-bodied, firm and round-textured. Juicy and fruity. Delicious finish. Fruit-forward.
Offers an excellent structure, a balance of acidity and tannins, and a core of blackberry and raspberry flavors, spicy oak notes and nutmeg scents, ending with loamy tannins.