The rich and intense bouquet offers both dark fruit and lifted spice aromatics of olallieberry preserve, pinecone jam, bay leaf and dried violet.   The palate is textural and chalky giving the wine exciting energy around a core of dark chocolate, caramelized sugar, fresh blueberry, and plum skin. The fine-grained tannin structure suggests a long life in bottle, with great potential for evolution. This blend consists of 38% Grenache, 28% Syrah, 23% Merlot, 11% Cabernet Franc.