2015 Thermenregion trocken "Streiterhof Cuvée", Lower Austria/Niederösterreich, Austria

Somewhat dried vegetal to tobacco and cedary notes on the nose, ripe black berries, some iodine, soy sauce, hint of sour cherries, herbs, juniper and a hint of ash. Fairly firm, tart dark fruit, warm and cool elements, some bitter, nutty and slightly sooty oak, earthy and dried vegetal notes, a little salt in the background, noticeable alcohol, earthy and rooty notes, good to very good, but also somewhat bitter-woody finish, again with a certain alcoholic sharpness.

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