Petroleum

Juicy ripe cherry aromas front for a rustic palate full of tar and tree bark and earth. Finishes clean, even though there's an earthy bite.

Solid bright grainy nose. Light in the mouth with an present but understated underlying acidity. Departs slowly and complexly with tea flavors and tarry cherries.

Low key and roast meaty on the nose with dense dark cherry fruit and an aromatic, rosewood top note, a little tarry. Delicious style of wine, still youthful and rambunctious, yet with succulent acids and dense, yet fresh...

Bright and hot, this wine is certainly not simple. It's full of baking spices, tar and leather, cherries, black licorice and oak. The most pleasant part is the finish, which is long but mellow but fills the mouth and is...

Really quite bright but still reserved nose with complex raspberry jam notes. Quite deep, luscious and rustic, bright cherry notes and loads of fresh spice and some light tar on the finish.

Dark chocolate covered raspberries, deep oak, tar leather and tannin in this one. There's even a bit of herb.

There’s a touch of VA on the nose here adding lift to the rich nose that combines elements of leather, tar, prosciutto and barnyard with jammy, candied cherry fruit tones. This has wonderful structure with great acids...

Reticent on the nose but obviously deep and layered with slow to emerge jammy, spicy fruit with a nuance of oaky cocoa and a touch of a tarry, very extracted tone. In the mouth this is rich and powerful with ripe, precise...

A bit hot and unassuming, but after a few hours of air, the cab franc began to some out for the better, and the wine showed jammy fruit, OK balance, medium body and a bit of spice, with tar and dark fruit. Good it you...