Unfiltered and therefore honest; yet bright hints of red, purple and vermillion twinkle. Bright, bright dark fruits of a late summer. Briar and blackberry; undergrowth and then early Autumn's wild mushrooms. The faintest pepper and spice of fine oak. It's about aroma at one minute, bouquet the next; there's a beguiling distance to the wine. Fine powdery tannins resound from first sip to last drop. The red wine's structure is built around a neat three-step dance: acid, fruit and tannins.
This effortless choreographed intermingling allows the wine to subtly demonstrate, in a quite introverted way, its tannic depth, and then in a much more demonstrable way, its ability to soar on the lifting acidity and bright dark summer berries and fruits. There's fruit richness when you need it, but just; and there are those powdery puckering tannins when required, but only a trace; and then the splice and spice of acidity to keep you and the wine both tense, alert and wanting.