Opaque ruby. An exotically perfumed bouquet evokes candied dark fruits and olive, along with complicating suggestions of pungent flowers and smoky bacon. Sappy and broad in the mouth, offering densely packed blackberry and cherry preserve and spicecake flavors underscored by a vein of juicy acidity. Shows very good focus and mineral-driven thrust on the youthfully tannic finish, which hangs on with strong tenacity. (Jun18)