Tasting Note: Highly aromatic and complex with black cherry, black currant and boysenberry with vanilla, cinnamon spice and sweet tobacco. On the palate, cherry and black currant with barrel spice. Savory elements of autumn leaf, leather, and cedar with rounded, plush tannins that extend into a long finish
Accolades: Roasted meat, preserved plum and smoke aromas make for a pleasantly rugged nose on this bottling, which includes 9% Merlot and 8% Cabernet Franc. The palate is rugged and rich as well, with teriyaki, baked black plum and smoked meat flavors, with acid washing into the finish. — Matt Kettmann