Appearance: Bright, with a deep ruby/purple core with a slight black/blue secondary hue, growing lighter toward the rim with slow, thick, well stained tears forming on the glass. Aroma: Highly aromatic and very complex with rich ripe black cherry, blackcurrant, berries and oak with layers of baking spice, autumn leaves, cedar, red and black licorice, leather and camphor. Palate: Full-bodied and very complex with rich, ripe black cherry, cassis fruit with oak, vanilla, cinnamon on entry. The mid-palate shows sustained ripe fruit and spice mixed with attractive cedar, sweet tobacco and leather notes with mouth-filling tannins that build through a very long and complex finish together with layered fruit, camphor, mint and cedar.