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Enormously deep, but also extremely elegant...let this wine roll over your palate and pay attention to the gigantic finish.
Crab apple, lime, chalk dust and a nose-wrinkling sharpness of chili pepper... The palate impression is dense and the feel is polished, though the stubbornly persistent finish is pithily piquant and takes the wine’s sense of mineral suffusion in a strikingly palpable direction. Thyme and sage serve for trigeminal stimulation and a cooling finishing accent.
...opens with its usual generous exhibition of exotic and stone fruit aromas, a delightful fragrance of highly scented Mediterranean herbs adds intrigue. On the palate, juicy peaches and nectarines are joined by exotic spice, sweet herbs and a subtle sprinkling of dusty minerality. Ample acidity provides contours to a full body.