"Medium ruby-red. Very savory, soil-driven aromas of tobacco, minerals, beef jerky and mincemeat pie; perhaps less about primary fruit than any other recent vintage of this wine. Wonderfully silky and plush, with compelling sweetness and suavity to its flavors of raspberry, dried fit, tobacco, minerals and truffle. Distinctly glossy, mouthfilling wine with suave, totally integrated tannins and terrific saline persistence. Made from a small crop of grapes, this sexy beast is deceptively drinkable today" - Stephen Tanzer