---Gold Medal---Ripe black cherries and warm earth aromas combine with spices, pepper and tobacco leaf. Firm acidity and tannins give it backbone, and the finish has warm toasty and mocha notes that resonate on the palate.
(Previous vintage) "Lithe, focused and generous with its blackberry and currant flavors accented with espresso and dark chocolate, finishing ripe, expressive and long. This seems to rise up again after falling away on the finish. Drink now through 2013."--Wine Spectator-91 points