This is just an absolutely phenomenal bottle of wine, I don't care who you are, this is just straight up good. The nose is this really amazing mélange of fruit and spice, there's a lot of really pretty red fruit, a little bit of stewed strawberry, but fresh raspberry, pie cherry, and then a little bit of cranberry-pomegranate-rosehip compote towards the end, all with just little touches of barrel spice throughout. The palate is fairly dense, albeit still solidly towards the light side of things, there's super pretty raspberry, red cherry, and cranberry skin on the palate. This is just so good and I really had a tough time spitting this one out, both during the tasting and even more so now a few hours later once it's had a really nice time to open up. Have this with anything you want, because if you're drinking this you already should know what you're pairing it with, but if you're just winging it all the usual suspects would be great. Roast chicken could be great, salmon, some pork dishes. Just go for it.