The impenetrable, inky-dark colour saturation is the first thing that gets you with this wine; it’s incredibly dense, dark, a stormcloud in a glass. Perfumed with blackcurrant, cherry and pepper-dusted damson plums, the nose is exciting, spice-driven and has smoke around the edges. Elegantly structured, the core of this wine has dark fruit, exotic spices and a seam of dark cocoa carrying its savoury concentration through to the long, pillowy finish where earthy, graphite-like layers appear. It has freshness, verve, ‘chew’ and chutzpah.
