There’s a beautiful, dark-fruited wine here, waiting for oxygen to bring it to life. At first, it seems volatile, with an onion-like reductive scent, black, smoky and heavily influenced by its oak. But there’s also an...
There’s a beautiful, dark-fruited wine here, waiting for oxygen to bring it to life. At first, it seems volatile, with an onion-like reductive scent, black, smoky and heavily influenced by its oak. But there’s also an electricity underneath, a fresh meadow scent that becomes more prominent with a day of air. The wine is still dark-fruited, but suddenly it’s clean and firm, juicy and electric. That energy will sustain the wine long after the reduction fades away, revealing a complex wine after four or five more years in bottle.