2015 Levy & Mc Clellan Red
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The 2015 Red Wine is a dark, unctuous wine. Blackberry jam, cloves, new leather and spice all fill out the wine's frame effortlessly. Two thousand fifteen was a very challenging growing season, and yet Bob Levy and Martha McClellan squeezed every ounce of potential out of what Mother Nature had to offer. This powerful, voluptuous wine was a lot to offer.
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Surprisingly shy and reticent, the 2015 Red Wine speaks in hushed tones. In this tasting, the 2015 shows exquisite purity of fruit and fewer new oak signatures than is common at this stage. Today, I am impressed by the wine's balance, although it is very clearly early days for the 2015. Time in the glass brings out pretty red cherry, rose petal and lavender character.
Medium to deep garnet-purple colored, the 2015 Proprietary Red is simply singing on the nose, revealing fragrant red and black currant notes plus hints of cinnamon stick, lavender, garrigue, forest floor and pencil shavings. The medium to full-bodied, delicately played palate is wonderfully spicy, with a quiet sophistication and decadence about it, sporting ripe, velvety tannins and seamless freshness, finishing with exotic undertones. Very classy wine! This was tasted as a barrel sample.