Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - Cooled in fridge for 45 minutes, taken out and decanted for 30 mins
Medium garnet. Opening aroma of cherry (somewhere between red and black, but not clearly one or the other), and flowers. No tar on the nose.
On the palate hallmark tannin under the palate and around the lower gums. Light to medium bodied with gentle black cherry and dark strawberry coming through in pleasing linear manner. The tar element builds, perhaps a little too much for me. Long finish in the tar / liquorice spectrum with some bitterness at the back palate on the side.
Doing well at 11 years of age.