94/96

A fair depth of crimson. Here the fruit is clearly the victor on the nose. It remains attractively discreet though with persistence. Some darker strawberries in the mix. A little vanilla washes through at the finish.

95 point

(near the tree line at the very top of the vineyard and atypically, the rows are planted North-South). A restrained, pure and airy nose combines notes of almost as spicy aromas of rose petal, black cherry and exotic tea. There is terrific punch to the intensely mineral-suffused and precise, if not especially dense, flavors that display stunningly good length on the bitter pit fruit-suffused finale. This markedly powerful and youthfully austere effort is class in a glass.