Opens with an inviting aroma combining powerful fruits with subtle chocolate, toasted marshmallow and smoky oak notes. Drinks astonishingly complex, offering waves of blackberries, currants and cherries, plums and sweet summer blueberries, all wrapped into mature, smooth tannins. An intriguing touch of grilled meat and pepper turns up in the long, spicy finish. Drink now–2015.——S.H.(6/1/2008)—— 93