Deep and dark, with extracted black-fruit aromas as well as bacon and grilled meat. The flavor profile runs toward beets and blackberry, while there is plentiful sweet oak on the finish. The mix of tannins, acidity and oak seems just about perfect, but the flavors don't seem entirely pure or integrated. Maybe time will bring it together. —M.S.
Deep and dark, with extracted black-fruit aromas as well as bacon and grilled meat. The flavor profile runs toward beets and blackberry, while there is plentiful sweet oak on the finish. The mix of tannins, acidity and oak seems just about perfect, but the flavors don't seem entirely pure or integrated. Maybe time will bring it together. —M.S.
Deep and dark, with extracted black-fruit aromas as well as bacon and grilled meat. The flavor profile runs toward beets and blackberry, while there is plentiful sweet oak on the finish. The mix of tannins, acidity and oak seems just about perfect, but the flavors don't seem entirely pure or integrated. Maybe time will bring it together. —M.S.
Deep and dark, with extracted black-fruit aromas as well as bacon and grilled meat. The flavor profile runs toward beets and blackberry, while there is plentiful sweet oak on the finish. The mix of tannins, acidity and oak seems just about perfect, but the flavors don't seem entirely pure or integrated. Maybe time will bring it together. —M.S.