Good deep red-ruby. Blackberry, violet and licorice aromas, complicated by leather and graphite. Wonderfully sweet, silky and suave, with an inner-mouth aromatic quality rare for the year. This very well-balanced blend is juicy, even a bit youthfully tight, and finishes with impressive perfume. Has the mid-palate sweetness to balance its firm tannic spine and offers a lovely combination of density and elegance. In comparison to this vintage, the 2003 release is more of an "upfront" wine, notes Vi...

60% Cabernet Sauvignon; 40% Cabernet Franc. The ripeness of 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon is here countered by the tight aspects of Cabernet Franc, and the result is a wine that has the lovely curranty fruit of the former with the sweet berry notes and firm tannins of the latter. It is a wine that might appear to be falling all over itself at first glance but which then impresses both for its depth and for the strong suggestions that more and better will emerge over the next decade.

Rating for United States-California: 91 (slightly better than average year)<br/><br/>Drinkability: drink now<br/>

Absolutely elegant and lucious deep red wine. Flavors of ripe cherries, plums, vanilla, and leather. Remarkably fruity yet perfectly "seasoned" with French oak. A legend in the making.

Mouthfilling and luscious. Like falling in love.

Liked, not worth the price. Tasted 2009.