Dense, rich and well carved, with chocolate, balsamic notes, moss and burnt toast to go with beefy black fruit aromas. The palate is full, generous and not at all lazy, with blasting blackberry, cassis, tobacco and toasty flavors. Acidic and tannic on one hand, but deep and pure on the other. It needs a few more years to knit together. Drink 2012–2018. ——M.S.(10/1/2010)—— 92