Tasting Notes
Deep garnet with a crimson core. Ground black pepper, hint of incense, violets in the undergrowth, bramble fruit, a youngberry freshness; the generous aromatics are sketched in by cigar box and vanilla toast. Youthful and energetic on the palate. Silken tannins coil around deep, dark cherry fruit, spiralling out in raspberries, plums, and cranberries. Spicy and savoury at the edges. Woven right through is a saline, lifted acidity, a hallmark of the 2017 vintage and its ratio of small berried bunches. Layered tannins build and melt into plummy juicy fruit, trailing to cacao nib and black cherries.