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...bouquet with lushly ripe fruit married with the oak.
...a sweet nose of vanillin, blackberries, and licorice. The wood frames this enormously concentrated, rich, chewy wine. Multi-layered, with phenomenal concentration and length as well as moderately high tannin levels,...
Firm in texture and generous with its bright berry, spice and slightly gamy flavors, nicely focused to display the fruit. Flavors persist impressively on the round finish. Best from 2001 through 2010.
...aromas of blackberry, black raspberry, licorice, roast coffee and smoky oak; hints of exotic fruits. Roasted dark berries complicated by notes of coffee, mocha and chocolate; fat and creamy but rather backward today...