...a phenomenal wine...more depth and length than the 1997,..
...berry and exotic spice flavors play out on a remarkably supple and elegant frame, with the fine tannins weaving through the finish so deftly you can easily miss them...
...Flamboyantly nuanced nose combines cassis, black raspberry, peat, bitter chocolate, baking spices and suggestions of exotic fruits...
...clean and rich bouquet oozes blackberry, black cherry fruit and spice, foreshadowing a massively concentrated and quite tannic palate, laden with black fruits...