Seamless, perfectly balanced with ripe fruit, ripe tannins and perfect wood integration. Elegant, sleek and silky textured, yet offering a modicum of plumpness and flesh to the textural attack on the palate, this shows exceptional cool climate pedigree to perfectly ripened fruit. The nose offers ripe red berry fruit with an ever so slight underlying hint of earthiness and even a suggestion of licorice. The flavors reminding of small red berry fruit along the lines of dark raspberry and weightier red stone fruit of dark plums and dark cherry. This exudes a class and sense of refinement that very few wines can achieve.