Fragrant and intense aromas while keeping light on its toes. Fresh and prickly red berries with still brightly green stems, in a good way, like how streaks of graphite in a red adds complexity.

A clean purity of red berries. Fresh acidity, intense and taught red raspberries and lively cranberries on the palate. Beautifully bright and even dusty minerals. Leaves a pleasantly steeped tea and a trail of minerals on the finish.

Full of vibrant life, so youthful and wild. May be difficult to taste now (I didn't mind it, but I'm biased towards youthful wildness in wine) but will be exciting to see how a few more years in cask will soften this up.

Dark and damp earth infused with dark red fruits, and good floral aromas.

Dark red fruits, dry and clean tree bark, beautifully dry and lightly bitter earth and minerals. Nice streak of graphite. Awesome precision and balance here, with great display of fruits.

Ranked as my favorite of the lineup.

Beautiful aromas of expressive red flowers, bright and refreshing red fruits.

The palate showed a bigger, explosive graphite haze (imagine the result of a finely powdered ball of graphite that was dropped onto a white sheet of paper), tree bark and matching fresh red fruits from the nose. Good freshness.

Ranked last for me out of the lineup.

Aromas of really dark plums, almost a bit stewed, with a bit of chocolate. Almost port-like, but not in a bad way. In this fruit is some wet and damp earth as well.

Similar plums on the palate, dark graphite, and deep earth. This is dense (flavor, not weight) and packed full of flavors. Imagine you can put all of these flavors in a sachet and have it steeped it. It's like the tannins are completely saturated with the flavors and have become really bold.

Admitting bias here, I love this kind of packed intensity. Host recommended to not touch for another 10 years and can still mellow out. I think this is pretty tasty now but to each their own!

Ranked as second but not very far behind first.

Dark and concentrated blueberries on the nose, accompanied by wet earth, and intense, bright green stems that adds a bit of excitement and freshness amongst the darkness (this blows off with time, I wish it stayed though).

On the palate is a vortex of dark blue and black fruits, fruit infused earth, a trailing swirl of minerals and a gentle, sexy spiced damp oak at the end.

All grapes sourced for this wine are mountain fruit. This is awesome juice and tasty af now. I wished there was just a touch more acidity, not that there wasn't any. Just surprised it was lacking some, being that its all mountain fruit. Nonetheless, amazing showing! A strong 95+

The nose showed dark yet soft red fruits, and damp wood with mossy growth, as if they were on an old pirate ship like on Pirates of the Caribbean.

On the palate is a bigger and darker intensity of black core graphite, pulverized black bitter minerals, dark blue fruits, and dried large slabs of bare oak (no tree bark). Even with this strong and savory mineral core, dark yet soft fruit envelops this core, making sure it doesn’t get out of hand.

This blend consists of 20% valley floor fruit and the remainder 80% is Howell mountain fruit. Tasty with some air time now, but this is trying to show off that it can stand the test of time. Will develop better with some age. 95+

Quiet aromas of dark plums with dry earth, and a bit of minerals. Quiet and almost mute.

Thank goodness the palate wasn't as shy as the nose *insert rimshot*. Dark blueberries, deep earth, a gentle tar note (almost like charcoal even), and nicely bitter oak. Good delivery on the mid-palate but not as strong on the finish, fades a bit on the finish.

All grapes sourced for this wine are valley floor fruit. Not sure if this was beginning to close down or in a phase, but this seemed like it didn't want to show up to the party, like it didn't wanna go out to socialize but ended up being dragged out. Was told by the host that the fruits sourced weren't affected by the fires, which seems to hold true as no flaws were detected. Maybe a few years in bottle should give it some energy. 94+ for now.

Dark red fruits on the nose, deep black earth with an underlying, a delicate scent of perfectly roasted, gently savory poblano peppers in an awesome way, blends so well with the earth and the fruits. There's also a dark tree bark with a gentle spice buried in the earth.

Dark, brooding and intense red and black fruits on the palate, black earth with beautiful graphite, and a dark mineral streak that somehow still shines bright throughout. Beautifully brooding while keeping a swiftness and lift on the palate.

I had high expectations of this *looks at bsumoba* and my goodness did this deliver! Remember when you were younger (my god I just felt so dusty saying that), and you heard of legends of a dark and mysterious protagonist? You didn't think this person exists, until you came across them somehow, somewhere. I don't know if I'm just talking this up because I like it so much, probably am but kinda don't care, but the fruit is so good here. It's as if you can tell it has gone through the struggles in life, yet it never faltered in keeping its essence true. I'm excited to follow this throughout the years. 98+