A veritable spice rack on the nose, the wine sees a core of cherry liqueur laden with black fig, plum compote, dark chocolate, exotic spice and crushed rock minerals. The fruit weight here is undoubtedly at the richer end, but a firm spine of cool, minty balsamic, delicate, dense and puckering tannins, and vibrating acidity lend the wine so much direction and focus that at no point does one feel lost in the sauce, so to speak.