It has a gorgeously bright dark ruby/purple color and extremely complex aromatics

of fresh herbs, Asian spices, creamy cherries, super - ripe blackberries,

and vanilla - imbued oak. This superb wine offers a mouthful of silky - textured

cherries, blueberries, plums, boysenberries, earth, minerals, and spiced oak. This

masterpiece is full - bodied, dense (yet extremely elegant and defined), thickly -

textured, and immensely concentrated. Moreover, I sensed this wine was holding

a significant amount in reserve! /RP /Aug 1998