This extremely impressive and expressive wine features a big, plush, penetrating, leathery bouquet that opens onto gorgeous fruit on the palate, with almost no overt oak. The texture is marvelously tender and inviting, and the tannins are magically soft and rounded. This is really not a big, muscular wine, but one that still seems opulent because of its fabulously rounded feel, which permits the fruit to show very deep, satisfying, persistent flavors.
