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Spice-laced hazelnuts and notes of candied citrus fruits can be discerned in the aromatic profile. Medium-bodied, velvety-textured and packed with fleshy, buttery pears as well as minerals, this wine exhibits terrific depth, purity...
Subtly complex nose hints at musky lemon, lime, flowers and herbs; there's nothing roasted about this wine. Nicely stony wine with uncanny life in the mouth for a 2003. The wine's elevated alcohol is buffered by its firm acid impression.
This is big step up in aromatic elegance with a very spicy and expressive orchard fruit nose and round, rich and dense flavors that are sweet, sappy and exceptionally long plus ...is clearly the best balanced effort to this point.