Transylvanian black-purple, freshly bitten. Shaved white chocolate and then some liqueur chocolate. Green fresh hard herbs, fennel and aniseed. Ripe plums at dawn, and some dried plums and dates. Oh, and all of the peppercorns: green, black, pink, white - and all freshly ground. Lurking behind all of this is the hint of the oak barrel: a distant and vague hint of molasses, as if just over the aromatic horizon. Velvet-like at first sip, then textural, complete with a sort of lush, plush tannic screen. This red wine offers a long loop of flavours, yet all of them end in an ultimately dry finish. From red currant to blackcurrant; raisin to black olive; green herbs to tawny port. This is grainy and mouth-filling and coating, then comes the dry finish, with its peppery and savoury and acidic send-off.