This deep garnet-colored wine has a bouquet of cassis, purple plums and caramel with a whiff of dried Mediterranean herbs. Raspberry and blackberry flavors are wrapped in a layer of rugged tannins that peel back to reveal well-integrated acidity and notes of toffee, baking spice and crumbled thyme.

This broad, generous red offers inky layers of black cherry reduction, plum paste and Earl Grey tea flavors woven together with espresso, vanilla and rose petal details. Hints of tar, herb and hot stone come along on the finish, with thick tannins. Monastrell and Cabernet Sauvignon.