Smooth and velvety elements together with some rough edges that still need time to round. A delicious wine that extraordinarily complemented the food. Extremely long but monotonous aftertaste. Full bodied and extremely well-balanced wine. Not a teenage anymore but far from being fully mature.
Tannins still abound, fruit, wood, alcohol and acidity - all in abundance.
The elements are very distinguishable, another sign that this wine have not yet reached the 'harmonized' state where you can't tell one thing from the other. The bottle I had ten months ago seemed, at the time, more mature and developed.