Pours garnet red. On the nose there's red licorice, menthol, salted toffee with delicate floral and smoke notes on the back-end. Tart cherry , raspberry, rasin and firm tannin up front with black olive and brine mid-palette. A gloriously long finish. Complex and well balanced. It's almost begging to be mated with smoked, cured or grilled pork.
Tasted Apr.4/2016