Smith Woodhouse, Vintage other_regions_australia and vibrant medium weight flavors

and vibrant medium weight flavors exude a bracing salinity on the youthfully austere

This fine effort possesses an almost chewy texture thanks to the abundant dry extract

The rich but refined middle weight flavors are less powerful than those of the Vaudésir but notably more elegant while delivering a fine bead of minerality on the impeccably well-balanced and persistent finale

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Smith Woodhouse, Vintage other_regions_australia and vibrant medium weight flavorsDark blackish purple. Rich, soft, black cherries. Very very sweet and powerful and alcoholic, so much so that it is quite difficult to even discern the tannins but they are there. Is this just a bit too brutal and raw? It is extremely young but it does have all the ingredients there.