veni vidi vici Merlot

Fresh out of the bottle. Pretty enough dark purple color, a bit thin looking. Nose has some rubber soled old school basketball shoes right out of the box? A bit of cedar or black pepper. As it opened I got some rice pudding or tapioca...a little vanilla. There is a sour or bitter initial taste, no fruit, no sweets, no spice on the end. The finish is bitter, almost metalic? The fairly long finish is not necessarily a good thing. …