You don’t have to be an expert for your palate to react to the firm tannins in this Cab. They’re hard and astringent and brittle, but they’re also what enables the wine to develop in the bottle. With its deep, lush flavors of black currants, anise, dark chocolate and cedar, this beauty should blossom after 2010. ——S.H.(2/1/2009)—— 92