Smooth, deep aromas of bacon and dark berry form a proper and likable greeting. The palate is tight, with piercing but balanced acidity creating lift and structure. Tastes of bacon, vanilla, raspberry and plum, with cured meat, vanilla and coconut on the finish. Drink now through 2016.
— M.S.
(10/1/2011)
Sort of raisiny but also prickly on the nose, with a granular, gritty quality that subsides with airing. The palate is chunky and offers herbal red berry flavors that give way to a scratchy, herbal-tasting finish. Good in a regular way, but herbal.
— M.S.
(10/1/2011)