Dark ruby, pink-edged and staining.  Smells as dense as it looks.  An original spice-and-oak breathes out to bright, young, classic Paso pie-cherry and Jolly Rancher before settling back down to more serious discussions about petrichor and briar.  In the mouth, the surprisingly ready-to-drink wall of dark fruit maintains against a clawingly-dense core of structure.  Buy a case of these and drink one a year.
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2013 Sculpterra Paso Robles ‘Maquette’ Cab/CF/ME 45/30/25 14-6