Estimate
Cassis, rose petal, licorice, and brown spices migrate from an intense nose to a grippingly-concentrated, thickly-dense palate...wears its huge extract and tannins on its sleeve, or - less metaphorically speaking - in a long, vibratory, tongue-shaking finish that clings like a sap of Clos de Bèze.
Knockout nose offers black and blue fruits, dried flowers, minerals, mocha and Asian spices. Then chewy and powerful in the mouth, with an urgent quality to the sappy fruits and flowers...whiplash of fruits and crushed stone on the finish, which reveals a wonderfully subtle sweetness.
Ripe, with blackberry, plum and pomegranate aromas and flavors, augmented by oak spice and mineral. This seems open and lacy, yet there's a good structure for support, with a very long aftertaste.