Estimate
...rolls out of the glass with sensuous kirsch, black cherry preserves and chocolate box scents with touches of unsmoked cigars, dried mint and star anise. Full-bodied, rich and opulently fruited in the mouth, it has beautiful red fruit sparks and a finely grained frame, finishing long and lively.
...deep, layered bouquet of blackberries, plums, chocolate, dried flowers, and earth. A big, voluptuous, opulent example of this cuvée, with a power-packed, deep, rich style, it has ripe tannin and a huge finish.
There is great fruit here, rounded and powerful with the ripest character...open, generous, ready to drink. The tannins lead into the purest acidity, letting the fruit sing.
Brimming with blackberry and sandalwood aromas...very seductive... On the palate this is self-confidently dry, sleeker and more linear than the nose suggests. Very firm finish...
...plenty of black truffle infused red fruit, crushed rose petals and veins of dark chocolate...medium-bodied with fine grip and good tension. Pure red and black fruit intermingle with balsamic and white pepper notes, displaying fine precision and length.
Reticent nose hints at plum. Fat, sweet and voluminous, with mouthfilling plum and cherry fruit flavors complicated by smoke and underbrush. This seriously concentrated and firmly structured wine is most impressive today on the long...
...nose is deep and classy, as it offers up scents of black raspberries, black cherries, chocolate, soil tones, smoke and a nice base of vanillin oak...deep, full-bodied and quite ripe, with a fine core of fruit, well-integrated tannins, fairly low acids and a long, creamy and quite suave finish. A lovely wine.
Mint and liquorice and violet cachous on the nose. Quite rich and broad and leathery on the palate. Serious stuff. Mellifluous.