Roasted and savory spices, tobacco leaf, smoked meats, and scents of forest floor lend dark counterpoint to the bright fruit aromas of pomegranate, blackberry and orange-peel. Rich ripe fruit flavor gives balance to the copious mouth-filling tannins.

Lots of crushed cherries, juicy raspberries and plush strawberry burst on the plate with a medium bodied, elegantly textured center.