Wine Enthusiast says: "It's ripe and almost sweet in jammy blackberries, cherries, chocolate, smoky oak and peppery spices, but is given depth and drama by the fine structure of tannins."

Wine Enthusiast: "Balanced and dry, it has an impressively ripe core of cassis, spicy plums and cherry liqueur that should sweeten when those tannins fall out."

Wine Enthusiast says: "Explodes in succulent blackberry and cherry pie filling, cherry-chocolate truffle and smoky oak flavors."

Excellent concentration of dark berry flavors, ripe fleshy tannin, and deep dark pigment. Signature balance, depth on the mid palate, and a lengthy persistent finish.