"Aroma is dry clean and grainy with background notes of parchment and lychee; later passes offer semisweet mildly smoky/ashy scents of charcoal and smoldering embers. Palate entry is firm moderately oily bittersweet; at midpalate concentrated and spicy grain flavors mingle adroitly with the smoky sap- and resin-sweet birch-charcoal filtering influence. Concludes sweetly and almost candy-like." 96-100 Points Wine Enthusiast "Highest Recommendation"