A highly perfumed bouquet evokes black and blue fruit preserves, incense and pungent flowers, while hints of smoky minerals, vanilla and licorice add complexity. Stains the palate with sweet cherry-vanilla, blueberry and floral pastille flavors that are given lift and bite by zesty acidity and a hint of cracked pepper. Finishes on a gently tannic note, showing superb, spicy lift and floral-driven persistence. –J.R.
