Oak ageing has added some sweet texture and helps extend the wine's short but pleasant finish. Needs just a year or two to shave wood and tannic edges, but there is lovely, high toned cedar, spice, mocha and blackberry fruit on the nose. Mid-weight, quite dense and poised with very good length. Chalky, bitter tannin needs two years. Best 2002 to 2006.
Nose suggests blackberry, cherry, plum, cassis, tobacco and herbs.
Dry, markedly tannic, but with a good fruit layer around it. There is a good future ahead for this wine. Full-bodied, long finish. The aroma and flavours come into their own with an hour or so of aeration. Nose exhibits intense barnyard, plum, blackberry and leaf mulch.