Smells and tastes pretty good, with currant notes accented by considerable oak, which brings vanilla, smoke and sweet wood-sap flavors. Yet the tannins are enormous and problematic, striking midpalate and leaving the mouth feeling numb, and the depth of flavor just isn't there to counterbalance them.
Smells and tastes pretty good, with currant notes accented by considerable oak, which brings vanilla, smoke and sweet wood-sap flavors. Yet the tannins are enormous and problematic, striking midpalate and leaving the mouth feeling numb, and the depth of flavor just isn't there to counterbalance them.
Smells and tastes pretty good, with currant notes accented by considerable oak, which brings vanilla, smoke and sweet wood-sap flavors. Yet the tannins are enormous and problematic, striking midpalate and leaving the mouth feeling numb, and the depth of flavor just isn't there to counterbalance them.
Smells and tastes pretty good, with currant notes accented by considerable oak, which brings vanilla, smoke and sweet wood-sap flavors. Yet the tannins are enormous and problematic, striking midpalate and leaving the mouth feeling numb, and the depth of flavor just isn't there to counterbalance them.