This is a very big wine, strong in fruit, potent in tannins, and well-oaked. It floods the mouth with primary flavors of cherries, blackberries and black currants, as well as interesting overtones of leather, teriaki beef and sandalwood. Quite good, but young and tannic and a little one-dimensional. Hard to predict its future.——S.H.(4/1/2010)—— 86