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...red fruit and tile aromas with terra-cotta come through clearly here...sage and bark with cedar undertones. Leaves, too. Then turns to blue fruits. Full body with lovely tannins that are velvety and energetic from the underlying acid and earth character. Excellent finish.
Ripe blackcurrants, fresh blue fruits, huge minerality, full-bodied richness...dense, concentrated mid-palate, and incredibly pure notes of chocolate, loamy earth, tobacco, and lead pencil all define this sensational Oakville Cabernet Sauvignon. The tannin quality as well as the overall balance are just about off the charts.
...soars out of the glass. Inky dark cherry, gravel, licorice, graphite and chocolate saturate the palate. Vertical, dense and explosive...wonderfully deep and expressive...so well-balanced.
...big, round, silky, and lush blackberry flavours with sagebrush nuances and dark chocolate...full-bodied with a rich, dense black and blue fruit core, complemented by tantalising acidity. Dazzling in its opulence...perfectly balanced by superb, fine-grained tannins and bright minerality.
Juicy and vibrant in feel...bursts with exuberant notes of raspberry, mulberry and boysenberry pâte de fruit scored with roasted apple wood and licorice root accents...lovely flurry of iris and hibiscus forms the backdrop...tug of loam to keep everything grounded through the finish.
Black-cherry fruit with gravelly rocky minerality. Cocoa-powder-textured, gum-climbing tannin. Lively and fresh but very dense. Incredible concentration.