Color: Deeply purpled blood.
Nose: A big full-bodied aroma of black cherries, roasted plums, and hints of chocolate.
Taste: A layered mouthful of Rutherford clay Cabernet with a special focus on black cherry. Not super complex, yet deeply satisfying with a relatively light body and silky mouth feel. Four years seemed to be enough time to let this bottle mellow. A couple more years would also be fine. I have another bottle I'll save and see how it develops. Plump round tannins coated all sides of my mouth well. Pleasant even if the acid could be slightly better balanced. Spicy notes include hints of vanilla and alittle caramel from the oak, which brings out the natural sweetness from the fruit. Had amazing legs. Overall a fairly sexy bottle with a gentleness not always expressed in a young Cabernet. This likely from the Petit Verdot and Merlot rounding out those tight Cabernet tannins. The taste lingers in your mouth and then turns a bit dark, like roasted walnuts miraculously appeared on your palette. My wife called this wine "dirty" on the back of her palette. Apparently the walnuts had been rolled down the slopes first.
After 30 minutes or so and a bowl full of harvest pasta (butternut squash, shitakes, sage, fresh parpadella, and shaved parmesan) the wine opened up to a fuller medium body with a thicker mouthfeel and stronger, fuller, riper fruit giving it a more complex developed taste. Certainly better either decanted or let to sit for a bit before drinking.
Alcohol: 14.5%
Price: I found a place getting rid of these bottles for $29. Not bad.
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