The 2021 Lady of the Dead offers berries and spices in spades, with boysenberry, raspberry, and cranberry over allspice, cinnamon, and toasted oak. Already very open and easy to get to know, this wine has a juicy softness to it while packing a punch of concentrated fruit fullness. It builds layers of character in the glass, revealing more nuance, while never losing its focus on the fun of ripe dark fruit.
Intense sweet dark fruits with brooding aromas of blueberries, cocoa, leather and fine antique wooden furniture, and then hints of lifted maple in the foreground are later complemented by black olive. The wine hits the palate with sweet fruits of raspberry turning to blackberry and the structure unfolds with a building finish that portends a long future of graceful aging.
The 2020 LADY OF THE DEAD features a dark fruit core of bramble berries, Morello cherry, candied fruits, vanilla, cedar, allspice and tilled earth along with notes of leather.
Layers of dark fruits from brambleberries on top of spice cake, cedar cigar box and sweet pipe tobacco unfold on the nose. A concentrated attack of candied plum, black cherry and caramelized fig are part of the sweet and silky palate that is generous and long with a finish turning from currant to anise and showing a little grip and brightness.
Alluring dark fruits of brambleberry, ripe blackberries, and candied dark cherry jump from the 2021 BLOCK FIVE, typical of the crowdpleasing style this wine has established. Open, juicy and voluptuous, on the palate this wine is round and fruity but then shows hints of minerality, earth, and toasty spices over the base of pretty black and red fruit tones that spin out into a minute-long finish boosted by the acidic verve in the heart of the wine
The 2020 BLOCK FIVE announces itself from the glass with vibrant dark fruit, anise, black fig, olive, saddle leather, and hints of slate rock, cement and toasted oak.
