Salmon color. Nice minerality, herbs, and a bit of spice on the nose. Palate is consistent, but lacks much in the way of fruit. May be beginning to show its age. I would have liked to have had this a couple of years ago.

Dark Red Purple . Decanted for 1.5 hr and drank over an additional 3 hours. Showing nicely at presentiation, but really evolved over the evening, consistent with previous experience that required a 4 hours decant. This clearly needs time, but if you are patient and decant well, this will reward. Nose is aromatic with with cassis, pencil lead, herbs, a bit of smoke and sweet black cherry. The palate is concentrated with ripe black fruits and round tannins. My WOTN. 94-95pts.

Deep red color. Decanted for 1.5 hours, drank over 3 hours. Nose shows big licorice, garrigue, meat/game, smoke, and later cherry. The palate shows tart cherry, spice, meat. The finish is moderately long. It's hard to complain about a wine this good, but it did not show nearly as well as the last bottle, which was simply exquisite. Everything was the same; bottle variation? 94pts.

Deep red color. Nose is very herbaceous, mint, pepper, a bit of heat for me. The palate currently lacks fruit and shows mostly the leather, spice and herb profile with a bit too much acidity for my taste. I have to disagree with the comment "massive fruit attack on the palate". It wasn't in this bottle anyway. 91pts.