Orin Swift, Machete

Orin Swift, MacheteDeep garnet purple colored, the 2015 Proprietary Red Machete opens with scents of black forest cake, cassis and menthol with a medicinal undercurrent and a waft of chargrill. Medium to full bodied, firm and chewy, it has a compelling earthy savory character and a long spicy finish. 23,400 cases produced.

Deep purple-black in color

white blossoms and almond pastry

It seems to be a consistent theme with the 2010 Ente wines as this too is exceptionally fresh and pure with a slightly riper combination of white-fleshed fruit aromas that also display hazelnut

(100% from the Chambolle side that combines about one-third terres rouges and the remainder from terres blanches)

and two-thirds of that oak is new

this is aromatically quite cool with restrained aromas of mostly floral and citrus along with background hints of green apple

the 2018 Les Pavots is medium to deep garnet-purple in color

There is ample minerality suffusing the more powerful and appealingly textured flavors that also coat the mouth with dry extract while buffering the very firm but not hard tannic spine on the hugely long finish

offering loads of perfume and powerful fruit in a seamless

There is a wonderfully refined mouth feel to the seductively textured medium-bodied flavors that are finer but less obviously mineral-inflected than the Sentiers on the impressively persistent finish

which has a muscular and still-chewy edge

short and clipped finish where the supporting tannins are tough to the point of being borderline hard