Issue: 65
Tasting note: A slightly wild nose consists of underbrush, freshly turned earth, smoked game and subtle spice hints on the dense and liqueur-like dark berry fruit aromas. The dusty, intense and well-muscled big-bodied flavors are shaped by very firm but relatively sophisticated tannins on the well-balanced and youthfully austere finale that exhibits simply huge length. The imposing structure is more of a background element at present because of all the mid-palate sap, but this will be a long-distance runner.
