Opaque ruby. Exotic aromas of cherry-vanilla, dark berries, cola and lavender. Lush and creamy in texture, offering sweet dark fruit compote flavors and a good dose of oak spice. The floral quality comes back on the finish, which clings with impressive tenacity and length. Quite modern in style but there's plenty of material here.

Bright violet color. Pungent dark fruits and herbs on the fragrant nose. The palate offers deep black and blue fruit and vanilla flavors complicated by licorice and black tea, with a smoky quality emerging with air. Finishes tangy and long, with sneaky sweetness and very good clarity.

Orange-tinged pink. Highly fragrant bouquet evokes fresh red berries, spicecake and lavender. Juicy and focused, with good energy and bite to its tangy strawberry and raspberry flavors. Closes on a juicy note, with very good fruit-driven persistence.

Vivid ruby. Spicy blackberry, cherry and woodsmoke aromas show very good intensity. Fleshy, sweet and concentrated, with a supple texture to the creamy dark berry flavors. Shows a distinct note of lavender pastille on the impressively long, juicy finish.

Blackish crimson and then sweet and light. Very round fruit with tannins not really in evidence (unlike the alcohol) until the very end. Just a little bit drying on the end but there is lots of satisfaction here.