Judicious, venerable, earthy bouquet of cedar chest, pencil shavings, tobacco leaves, cigar box, dried rose petal, tar, wet soil, and a suggestion of molasses and smoke followed by a structured, dense palate of muted prune and early picked black plum notes with flavors of cedar, leather, black pepper, and charcoal, very rounded, delicate tannins, concluding with a long, leathery finish.