Pale gold color. Petrol, mineral, some grass, and later some light florals and tropicals. The palate is light, moderate acid, average finish. Pleasant.

Medium red color, marked bricking. Oxidized, wood, tart red fruit, prominent acid. Sliding down the slope quickly.

Deep gold color. This was lovely. Toast, oak, green fruits, florals, nuts, fig. Later developing some butter and roasted marshmellow notes. The palate is consistent with the nose, classy, lush, but not over the top. Oak is moderate. Great balance and a long finish. I really enjoyed this, and while this is a bigger style, I don't think it's over done at all.

Very dark red color, no bricking. I found this to be outstanding. Gave it a 30 minutes decant, improved over 30 minutes more and was going strong 3 hours later. Nose had a perfume of florals, damp earth, blueberry, cassis, graphite, subtle oak. The palate is gorgeous with a nice core of dark fruit, graphite, oak, and mineral, soft with velvety tannins, nice acid, and a very long finish, oh so elegant. My WOTN, 94+pts.

Very dark red. Nose shows ripe fruit, mulberry, cassis, spice, herbs, oak. The palate has good depth, glycerin, nice round tannins, cassis, with a rich finish with oak notes. This drank quite well and was not showing any age.

Dark red/purple color. This was big, with meat, eucalyptus, blackberry on the nose. The palate is deep, ripe black fruit, full body, meaty, dusty. 91+pts.

Very dark red. This bottle was in pretty good shape. It was a bit hot on the nose and palate. Nose has oak, spice, alcohol-mild, herbs, briar. The palate is fairly nice with good fruit, cassis, plum,oak, and some heat on the finish at times. The balance is off here a bit, but overall holding up fairly well.

Very dark red. This was a fascinating wine. The nose was extremely aromatic, starting off with almost pure eucalyptus that evolves into creme de menthe, in fact it started to smell like an Andes mint after awhile. I had a hard time getting anything more off the nose since this was so powerful. The palate was velvety, with mint, blackberry, cassis, good acid and round tannins. Nice structure, nice balance. Very enjoyable now, but I think this needs some time to fully evolve.

Very dark red/purple. This was outstanding. Lush and silky on the palate, great balance, spice, black fruits, oak and hints of mocha. My #2 WOTN. 94+pts.

Very dark red/purple color. this started off a little slow, not sure how much decant this got. Nose has blackberry jam, plum, spice, moderate tannins. This evolved to show some nice forest floor, herbs, and a long finish.

Very dark red/purple color. Lots of licorice, spicy, heat, red fruits, prominent acid, somewhat grippy tannins. This is very young, and despite a 4 hour decant was not integrated well. I would like to revisit this in a few years.

Amber color. Not overly sweet, good acid, nice fruit.

Small pour, but notes of chocolate, blackberry, cassis, glycerin, fairly rich, nice balance, medium plus finish.

I only got one small swallow of this, but what I did get was very impressive. Ripe creme de cassis, velvety, long finish. Impression 93-94pts.

Small pour, black cherry, herbs, tobacco, alcohol, oak.

Purple/red color. Really aromatic and herbal nose with oak, eucalyptus, creosote, tar, meaty, blackberry liqueur. The palate shows some heat, big fruit, spicy, tar, medium finish.

Very dark purple/red color. Smokey, briar, spicy, pepper, licorice, blackberry, a little heat on the finish. fairly complex.