Medium crimson, cassis/ leafy aromas with some minty notes. Slightly cooked fruit, partly redeemed by the deep flavours of a textbook solid, chewy Bin 707 palate, sweet cassis/ minty flavours, leafy tannins. An immediate, intense lift of pure ripe blackcurrant fruit, laced with mint and the faintest suggestion of violet. Cigar box and fresh tobacco oak notes showcase the sheer fruit quality. Powerful and complete. Saturated fruits have soaked up the new oak culminating in a rich, sweet mid-palate and long stylish finish. The depth of fruit and defined structure, coupled with obvious muscular tannins, suggest that this wine is built for the long term. Blackberry and blackcurrant flavours persist long after the wine has been tasted.