In the glass, the wine has a dark crimson color, with flashes of purple-blue. The nose unfurls with the perfume of crunchy black fruit (like tiny wild Berkshire blackberries), along with griotte cherries, crème de cassis, and a faint suggestion of lilacs, fresh tobacco, and charcuterie. On the palate, the wine is multi-layered and concentrated, with a core of black-fruit flavors that echo the nose, adding orange pekoe tea, just-rained-on wet granite, and black truffles as the wine evolves in the glass. The long, satisfying finish is extended by lively fresh fruit acidity and dry mineral extract, and is punctuated with mild, fine-grained tannins.