Medium-bodied. The complete package:

Fruit: Juicy redcurrant jelly, dark plum (and plum acidity), fresh rhubarb.

Acidity: ‘Just right’ – a lively and lifted conveyance from initial lip-contact to sated ingestion.

Tannins: Integrated, polished-graphite tannins

Oak: Seamlessly hidden/concealed oak. Melding well with fruit.

Overall, cabernet balance and definition, sans exaggeration.

 

Instantly cabernet, exposed by fragrant violet, lavender, blue fruits and a waft of red apple blossom.

And yet there’s much more with scented illuminations of:

Baked delights – Danish pastry/croissant and rye bread crust.

A Mediterranean ratatouille – laced with thyme, oregano and pulped olive.

Chamois, new-buck leather.

Cedar – yet any oak presence certainly respectful of fruit.