Violet in color, this wine offers a nose of cherry, pomegranate and rose petal. It is spicy at first sip, with flavors of strawberry, pomegranate, butterscotch, iodine and clove. Somewhat substantial tannins recede into a finish marked by a note of salinity.

Shows sweetly spiced black cherry fruit, cola and dried thyme notes, which are juicy up front but clipped by crisp tannins on the modest finish. Drink now.