If you give this wine a little time to open up, it’s quite good. Big, fruity nose and lots of dark fruit flavors.

Nose: Bursting with fruit and lots of dark berries, cherries and currants as well as a nice spiciness — cinnamon and nutmeg.

Taste: Really tight when you first open it. Oily tannins, earth, leather, dark cherries. It took about 30 minutes for it to really open up.

Food: We tried it first with some smoked Gruyere, which really smoothed it out and brought out more fruit. We later paired it with a grilled chicken spinach salad. Because it had been open for over 30 minutes, it was an excellent pairing with less pronounced tannins and more fruit.

A very nice wine if you can wait for it. A good wine for decanting.

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