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The wine flows from the glass with layers of dark fruit, sweet French oak, minerals, menthol and licorice. This big, strapping wine could use another year or two in bottle to come together, but its ample potential is evident today.
Shows loads of strawberry jam on the nose. Full-bodied, with chewy tannins and lots of ripe fruit and oak. Slightly mouthpuckering.
Black cherry, licorice, menthol and a whiff of sweet oak on the nose. Rich, broad and minerally, with lovely sweetness but also a more serious menthol aspect to the spicy black fruit flavors. Quite full in the mouth...