Winemaker’s Tasting Notes: The 2023 Black Magic leans toward the darker more brooding end of a wine’s fruit profile. Very complex notes of spiced black plum, cassis, along with hints of cardamom, anise, a sense of petrichor, with notes of bitter chocolate, espresso, and graphite. It’s somehow intense and powerful, yet elegant and lithe on the palate. This will definitely be drinkable on release, but like a coiled spring, time in the bottle will unveil its full potential. If  Pure Magic is the beauty, Black Magic is the beast. It reminds me a bit of a combo of the 2019 and 2018 vintages, with the firmer tannins of 2019 allied with the sweeter fruit of 2018.