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...offers aromas of high quality unsmoked cigar tobacco, lead pencil shavings, creme de cassis, earth, cedar and asphalt. Full, rich and stunningly concentrated, I doubt it is inferior to the 2010, just more classic...
Juicy, spicy and penetrating, with lovely harmonious acids providing great clarity and cut to the black fruit and graphite flavors...This may yet turn out to be the wine of the vintage, but it will require patience.
This is supple and harmonious already, with inviting, almost plush blackberry, plum and fig fruit notes carried by very fine-grained, lightly cedary structure. Black tea and sandalwood flash on the finish.
...Well-mannered nose with lots of subtlety and a hint of well-polished leather. Very juicy with lots of palate impact but still very unresolved...Rather exotic and spicy with glamorously managed tannins. Marked freshness. Very 2008!...