(2010) There's a soft, vanilla and earthy spice warmth to this wine, with deep, cassis and blueberry fruit. On the palate a rush of that intense, sweet-edged but bittersweet fruit, with black cherry skin bite and plenty of crisp acidity. In fact, along with dry tannins, this is perhaps just a shade aggressive in the finish - but that's always preferable in Merlot to over-sweetness or lack of bite.