Monday, March 24, 2008 - nose: nice filling nose of blackberry, leather, creme de cassis, peppercorns, and bits of dark spices and briar notes
taste: nice black fruit flavors on teh palate with black licorice, creme de cassis, and dark spices
overall: this is a tremendous wine. great as a pop n pour with nice racy dark notes on both the nose and palate. It's a bit thin on the mid palate and doesn't have as long of a finish as I'd like, but this is a pure steal at $14