Fruit cake plus a melange of dried fruits, plums, mince pie, cocoa dust, vanilla, prunes. The dark, ripe, and poised fruit is fleshed out with sandalwood, musk, perfume, violets, and a faint savoury edge. Secondary aromas of leather, tobacco, cigar, pipe tobacco and charcoal counter the dense cherry-cola fruit purity. Serious and layered with elements of fynbos to add lift to a firm palate that is salty lined with melding fruit tannins evolving with a long and delicious finish. It’s full-bodied, classic, dry, and long ending. In a word: powerful.