Color: Black/Reddish-Purple Aroma: Intense rose and jasmine, black raspberry, chocolate, vanilla, clove, and sweet cassis Taste: Very structured, elegant, thick and velvety. Explosively intense raspberry and blackberry fruit, cassis, chocolate, a long midpalette and finish of black raspberry, vanilla, mineral, coffee, and chalky tannins. Complex and long-lived.

Rating for United States-California: 89 (slightly better than average year)<br/><br/>Drinkability: quite possibly over the hill<br/>