A brooding if attractively perfumed nose features spicy notes of plum, dark raspberry and soft wood spice. The round and velvet-textured flavors possess good volume and reasonable concentration though the lingering finish seems a bit flat and dull. There appears to be good underlying material so this could well come together, especially because the one thing that the 2017 vintage doesn't lack is energy.

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