This is a rich, engaging nose - perhaps a bit oak-driven at the moment, with chocolate, hazelnut, tar, black...

Casting aside initial hot and bothered, massive attacks of baked cherry pie and predictable extraction disabling...

Smoky and a little bitter but with lovely cassis fruit that is just starting to wane. Notes of saline and fig...

A rather hard and hot (14.5% alcohol declared) CdR Villages, with a shortage of flesh and substance on the palate....