Dark purple-red with an opaque rim edge and a grainy amaranthine core. Violet flowers and blackberries crushed in the hand; bath salts, talc stone, minerals; lifted rose petal, pink peppercorns and Turkish confectionery. The primary fruit aromatics are at the fore; the secondary oak bouquet very much in the small timpany section of the orchestra. Rich and ripe with a saving, savoury periphery: sour plums, roasted beetroot, compote dark berries. The berried lushness of the first sip is soon balanced effortlessly before more linear and granular, dry and minerally textures and flavours take over. Grenache here is on a more mature and adult display, although the cheeky fruitiness and vibrant berries that are so lovingly typical of this red variety are still present, perhaps seen rather than heard.