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A highly perfumed bouquet evokes fresh red and blue fruits, mocha, Asian spices and candied rose, along with a smoky mineral topnote. Juicy, chewy and impressively concentrated, offering intense boysenberry, bitter cherry and spicecake flavors...
Vibrant raspberry and blueberry blossom aromas open to a slightly brooding core of minerally tannins, building structure on the long finish.
Good intensity of ripe dark cherry here with a distinctively foresty nose and earthy, woody and leafy-toned complexity. The palate is quite boldly structured and has a powerful core of blue-toned pinot fruit flavors. Fuller, rounder style here.
Blueberry and sweet plum flavors are set against tart citrus—excellent material right from the start.
...flashes plenty of menthol influence on the red and blue pinot fruit...very supple, round and equally easy-going medium weight flavors...sneaky good length.