A: Dark Fruit, Cabbage
T: Red fruit, spice, pepper, clean med+ finish

A: Good ripe tropical fruit
T: good fruit clean

A: Great fruit, savoury
T: good furit, savoury, apples, nice texture

A: Mushroom, Toasted Dry Popcorn
T: Good fruit apple/pear, lemon, nice texture
Conc: Very good wine

A: Vegetal, Spice, Soap
T: Dark Cassis, Smk, Earth, Bark

A: Ripe tropical fruit, kiwi, interesting floral
T: nice fruit, good balance of oak, precise, balanced

conc: I prefer the 08 tho this is good just like the owner said different year much warmer

Tasted, Not Yet Released [couple months away]
A: Floral, Red fruit [nice!]
T: soft texture, red fruit, dark cocoa

Conc: reminded me of the fruit I found in the 07 Haut Brion I had and I love it. Its the perfect red fruit that bordeaux gives not a napa cab darker fruit

A: Leather, Dark Chocolate
T: Mineral, Purity, Dark fruit

Conc: so good, Merlot truly is only good when its made with care, not mass produced

A: Cabbage, Red fruit, Dark
T: Earth, Dark Chocolate[Mocha], Red fruit, perfume

conc: beautiful, this reminds me of walla walla cayuse syrah so ill leave it at that

A: Still Fairly Tight
T: Tight! dark chocolate and red fruit coming through

Conc: a baby with lots of backing slowly unwinding from the last tasting will probably taste again in a year and will be interesting to see how it evolves with such young vines

Not Yet Relased

A: Floral, Dark, Tight
T: Red fruit, floral, great structure, clean, precise

Conc: I think I like this more then the 07, esp with the floral notes, will love to see it open and evolve