Finca Allende, Mingortiz

Finca Allende, Mingortiz(all new French oak) Limpid violet color. Smoke accented red berries, cherry pie, incense and mocha aromas show impressive clarity and spicy lift. Offers expansive, palate staining red fruit preserve and vanilla. Floral pastille flavors flesh out steadily on the back half. The floral note carries through a very long, lively finish that's given shape by gentle, harmonious tannins. Josh Raynolds

not to mention downright refreshing finish

blackberry compote

there is a floral quality here that I loved and hadn't seen in previous vintages of this single-vineyard red

There is excellent detail to the lacy and equally pure middle weight flavors that also evidence mineral notes that add lift to the energetic and tension-filled finish

But today the wine's huge

it's even more fun

mineral-driven and refined medium weight flavors that culminate in a very serious

with licorice

and with impressive power and grip on the long finish

The rich and nicely dense flavors possess a velvety and caressing mouth feel that exhibit a pretty minerality on the nicely balanced and impressively complex if not especially refined finish

ample and layered on the palate

The palate is understated on the entry but then builds in the mouth with wonderful spice and black pepper infused black fruit that form the foundation of this Cos d’Estournel