Tart now, with lots of acidity cutting across the blackberry and mineral flavors. As rich as it is, there’s a taut elegance that makes the wine tense. Clearly too young, it should develop fine bottle complexity over this decade.——S.H.(3/1/2012)—— 92

A beautiful Cabernet Sauvignon, balanced and elegant. It’s flashy in blackberries and currants, with an elaborate coating of oak, yet not over the top, withdrawing its fruit at the last minute to finish in a swirl of minerality and spice. Should develop over the next six years.——S.H.(3/1/2012)—— 91

Nice now at 5–plus years in the bottle, with fully resolved tannins making the wine softly creamy in the mouth. The fruit is beginning to fall out, leaving a dry herbaceousness to the departing blackberries and cherries, which are fusing with the sweet vanillins of oak. Shows real elegance of structure, but it’s all downhill from here, so drink up.——S.H.(3/1/2010)—— 90