Easy-drinking but pleasurable, with woodsy-charred tannins, I'd drink this with barbecue all the time, if only I had a barbecue. Cherry and dark plum fruit is ripe and accessible on the nose and the palate. It's not a complicated, nuanced wine, but that's no reason not to buy a few bottles to have around the house.——D.T.(11/15/2003)—— 86