The Paumanok 2005 Assemblage blends 34% Cabernet Sauvignon and 22% Petit Verdot into its base of Merlot. Tart blueberry and blackberry are tinged with mint and fennel. A finely concentrated, leanly-textured palate displays well-integrated bitterness; a sense of extract you imagine straining through your palate; and an adamantly dry finish. This should hold will for 5-7 more years, although it will always lean toward the austere side. Veteran Charles Massoud and his oldest son, Kareem, are practicing increasing selectivity and sorting of fruit as well as ever more sensitive and targeted extraction, and their 2007s build on and refine the success of their 2005s.Tel. (631) 722-8800