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An extraordinary effort in this vintage...a backward, dense purple-colored wine revealing a crushed rock-like liqueur along with highly extracted, massive flavors of black currants, sweet cherries, licorice and toast.
Musky aromas of dark fruits, coffee, mocha, chocolate and potpourri spices. Concentrated but classically dry.. Lush and deep but also quite penetrating...broad tannins and a chewy impression of solidity.
Rich, sweet dark damsons. Savoury, spicy. Very, very firm but not hard. Mouth-gripping at this point but has the fruit layer to fill it out in time.