August 2000 Scents of wild strawberries and tannins soft as chocolate give more of an impression of merlot than cabernet sauvignon. Even so, the earthy, cool soil flavors make this wine a pleasure to drink, an easy, light red with character. More like a Cabernet, with its elegant cedar and currant flavors augmented by toast and mineral notes, but still a very good little wine, with some genuinely food-friendly structure, too. Drink now through 2001. Finishes with firm but fine-grained tannins.
Flavors stay clean and elegant on the finish.
Like opening a jar of grape jelly, exuberant and fresh. Medium-bodied, picking up slightly dusty tannins on the finish. Not complex but a good little drink. A rustic and brawny red, with interesting black olive, tabacco and herb flavors. Tannic, with good concentration and peppery notes on the finish.