#76 on Wine Spectator's 2009 Top 100 Wines "There's a good sense of elegance to the well-defined, concentrated flavors of dark cherry, blackberry and plum, followed by notes of sage, dark chocolate and tobacco leaf on the long, powerful finish. Drink now. 5,000 cases imported."

drinking well with a Bordeaux-like quality concentrated rustic apppeal w/ notes of garigue (?) plum, forest floor and black cherry followed by thyme and sage

minor white pepper, plum dark malbec nose, lite pepper mouthfeel, fruit. Not back to France, tannic, very dry finish , very . not overoaked, perhaps too young. reminds me of the kaiken. nice fruit aftertaste. not intense, very tannic, needs time to soften.

loved it! wine from Connie's t'giving party!

excellent essayer avec viande et Sushi piquant

2010-02-20