Brilliant magenta color. A deeply perfumed bouquet evokes fresh cherry, dark berries, rose oil and peppery spices, along with subtle earth and savory herb nuances. Round and seamless in texture, offering lively blackberry and bitter cherry flavors that pick up licorice and bitter chocolate notes on the back half. Shows sharp definition and spicy lift on the impressively persistent finish, which is given shape by dusty, slowly building tannins.

This is quietly earthy, the scents of underbrush holding a suggestion of cherries. After two days open, the wine emerges with more confidence, the texture suave, the fruit burnished by notes of redwood and cedar finely meshed with oak tannins. It still needs cellar time to come together.

Focused and well-built, with broad black raspberry, pepper and black tea flavors that take on richness toward refined tannins. Drink now through 2023.