A quartet of Portuguese varietals-Tinta Barocca, Touriga Nacional, Souzão and Touriga Francesca-combine in this inky black wine bursting forth with a bouquet of crushed black berry, blue berry, tart cranberry, kirsch and purple plums with bright all-spice top notes intermingled by fynbos, apricot and savoury undercurrents. The bouquet slowly unfurls onto bold juvenile palate with liquorice, dried peach and cocoa hints to the dry finish. Time will temper the fiery fruity exuberance of youth, slowly unfurling the complexities of this fine Cape fortified"