The picture doesn't do it justice. Purchased from Fine Wines Int'l in San Francisco; decanted one hour. Medium garnet color in the decanter, garnet in glass (I took this wine very seriously from the hey-ho, with my tasting notes pad and a room full of quiet and all that BS). It honestly reminded me of slightly acidic, tart hot-house strawberries like we found at the farm stand by the side of the road to Tennessee Valley. Confectioner's sugar and sweet tomato stems in the front of the mouth and along the front sides of the bottom of the mouth. If you breath now, find notes of bunches of dessicated, rancid roses left out in the vase before a week's vacation, that broken memento. Sweet white pepper on the finish, full of dry orange zest and ultra-fine tannin. If you let the wine decant the bouquet that develops is other-worldly, but I'd put down the pad and left my quiet little room, so you'll have to trust me on this one....
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