Extracted and sweet in the mouth with very intense fruit flavors, nice clean earth and lovely stuffing. Elegance is developing in the middle, and I expect it to find better balance in the next three to five years in cellar. A nice wine to purchase for the long term. So this is my first opportunity to retract my tasting notes and post new, more accurate ones. Nose was clean and fruity with hints of leesy richness, complex notes of tomato relish and sage.
Nose is lovely and compelling.
In the mouth the wine shows a focused core of red and black cherry and berry fruit, chalky and earthy notes in the middle, which builds to an admirable elegance and a rich masculine finish. Nose is huge and sweet, full of fat black fruits, vanilla, and clean earth. Massive, rich and super earthy in the mouth with admirable underlying acidity. Balance is developing. Elegance and mineral complexity in the middle of the palate is evolving, and should be profound in five to seven years.