2018 "SAPHIR Grande Cuvée", Württemberg, Germany

Quite firm aroma of ripe black berries and cherries with a little dried herbs, floral nuances, lots of dark wood spice, chocolate, smoke, bacon and a little root vegetables. Very ripe, somewhat compote-like dark fruit with a lot of bitter-chocolate and smoky-roasty wood, crumbly-sandy tannin, a little ethereal hints in the background, still milky traces, good persistence, a lot of power and plenty of alcohol, also compote-like in the good to very good finish and with some bitterish, emphatically chocolaty wood.

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