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Highly perfumed dark berry liqueur, cola and floral pastille aromas show excellent clarity and spicecake and vanilla nuances. Sweet, seamless and expansive on the palate, offering intense blackberry, cherry cola and allspice flavors given lift and spine by juicy acidity. Strongly echoes the spice and floral notes on the finish, which is give shape by silky, slow-building tannins.
Minerality is front and center...with concentrated pencil lead the focus, backed up by sandalwood and dried rose petals...palate offers ripe cranberries and buttered cherries...
...rock solid; it has lots of darker raspberry and cassis nuances to go with plenty of classic Pinot Noir spice and forest floor characteristics on the nose. Medium-bodied, elegant, classy and beautifully focused...
A wine of substance, depth, richness and structure, with chalky, minerally tannins providing a nice framework for the taut red berry flavors. Shows touches of anise and red licorice. Ends clean.