There is one thing that will make me purchase a wine, and that is the percentage of Petit Verdot in it. This lovely varietal can give a wine some tremendous depth and smokyness. And in this wine, it does give it to this wine in spades; in fact, it's 12% of this wine's makeup.
The rest is 61% Cabernet Sauvignon and 27% Merlot.
And this wine is bold in taste, but I am thinking that they went a little overboard with the Petit Verdot.
The taste has some very dark fruit in it, with a little bit of leather and just the slightest amount of green pepper undercurrent to it. The finish is dry and it does exhibit just a tad of softness on the tongue. The color is a nice lovely purple.
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