Vinous - Score: 95-97 (2020 May)

Powerful, smoke- and spice-tinged black/blue fruit, exotic spice, pipe tobacco and violet aromas show superb clarity and building minerality. Deeply concentrated and broad in the mouth, offering alluringly sweet cherry and blackberry liqueur, fruitcake, salty olive and violet pastille flavors plus a hint of allspice. The strikingly long, penetrating finish features strong, minerally cut, an echo of sappy dark fruit and chewy tannins that come in late.