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This has dark cherries and damson on the nose: good definition and nice purity with just a hint of coconut from some unresolved oak. Soft entry, sweet ripe and opulent with chewy tannins, grippy finish but with a bitter edge right at the end. A sweet entry with dark, liquorice fruits, some savoury Cabernet Franc elements coming through with a dry, austere finish. Not bad length. Slightly attenuated on the finish though. Drink now-2013. Tasted January 2009.
Here is the Austere Definition –adjective 1. severe in manner or appearance; uncompromising; strict; forbidding: an austere teacher. 2. rigorously self-disciplined and severely moral; ascetic; abstinent: the austere quality of life in