6/29/2018 - LotionInTheBasket Likes this wine: 92 points

The color is a deep and dark garnet; real thick and opaque, can't see anything through it. The nose is loaded with vanilla and dark fruits, its 10 years in and smells young; touches of menthol and licorice; light florals of violets. Deep and unctuous. Its very fruit forward, heavy, getting plums, some cassis, stacked with vanilla, some tobacco box, moves to ripe tannis, gripping on the middle with moderate acidity. The finish has a bit of heat that overclouds the fruit and the tannins, finishes a bit bitter. This has room to run on the fruit and complexity, another 10 I'd wager. Feels like its leaving its youth. I just worry about the heat on the finish getting out of hand with the fruit subsiding to more tertiary characteristics.

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