This is a big wine with spicy aromas of blackberry, blueberry, dark chocolate, black pepper, oak, vanilla and tea leaves. There are spicy flavors of black pepper, blueberry, black cherry, chocolate and molasses. There is mouth filling texture with a long finish on this lush wine. This big wine calls for an equally rich food, try it with a long slow braised short rib, lamb shank or veal shank.