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Highly structured and deep, this medium to full-bodied wine offers complex flavors of stony black fruits, fresh earth, blackberries, and dark cherries.
Aromas of coffee, chocolate, minerals and gingerbread. Dense and sweet but a bit folded in on itself, with superconcentrated, thick flavors of cherry, minerals and menthol.
Ripe, chocolate aroma, that follows through in flavor, along with plum and oak spice. This needs time to resolve its dense tannins with the fruit.
...quite ripe but not necessarily any more elegant though there is perhaps slightly better depth of material and certainly better overall purity of expression and intensity, especially on the superbly long, firm and punchy backend...