Apple fruit and a pleasant mineral quality aftertaste. This one comes in a pretty blue bottle that folks will pick up because it looks good even before they know how good it tastes. Once they try it, they'll buy it again. Spicy, appley fruit, with hints of peach and lichee. Very youthful boysenberry flavors, considering it's already four years old.
Lean structure makes it especially food compatible.
Definitely needs 3-5 years cellaring to show its best. Mildly herbaceous on a cherry fruit base. Delicate and friendly and very much like most people expect Merlot to be. The only Merlot-like thing about this wine is its traditional cherry fruit flavors. It is bigger and chewier than Merlot is expected to be, with a firmer structure and bolder tannic base than most Merlots offer.