Saturated medium ruby. Pungent if slightly reduced aromas of red and black fruits, salty minerality, spices and herbs. Suave, fine-grained and wonderfully detailed, with its savory flavors of black raspberry, mocha and spices showing terrific peppery lift. A distinctly mineral, saline Malbec with a serious whiplash of flavor on the smoothly tannic back end. If this wine is still youthfully closed and in need of oxygen, it also shows more punch than the more liqueur-like 2015 version. Lay it down..