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...array of medicinal cherries, plum sauce, ginger cookies, cloves, cinnamon and dried roses captivate...finishes dramatically long and perfumed, resonating on sour blackberries, currants and a bitter hint of cocoa.
Pungent nose of violets, amarena cherries, dried figs and lightly charred oak. Some toffee notes emerge with air, together with more pressed flowers...full-bodied as full-flavored, with silky, fine and polished tannins.
A compact, focused red, this presents pretty violet, medicinal herb and anise notes on the nose as it slowly expands -- flavors that are more subdued at first on the palate. This is supported by dense, plushly textured tannins, flavors of mulled cherry, dark chocolate and amaro, loamy earth and smoke that are slowly revealed, gaining momentum and lingering on the long finish.