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...cool-climate style in its white pepper, cedar, game, and olive aromas and flavors. These carry over to the palate, where the wine is medium-bodied, ripe, and texture, with a great mid-palate...chewy tannins, good acidity, and loads to love.
...sexy, expressive bouquet evokes fresh dark berries, cherry pie, candied licorice and mocha, and a peppery note emerges as the wine opens up. Lush and broad on the palate, offering sweet, smoke-tinged black and blue fruit flavors that tighten up steadily on the back half. Fine-grained tannins add subtle grip to a very long, blue-fruit-dominated finish that leaves a suggestion of star anise behind.
...excellent, revealing aromas of sweet red berry fruit, aromatic bark and licorice. On the palate, it's full-bodied, rich and layered, with chewy structuring tannins but a good core of fruit...distinctive, characterful wine...