(90-92) points
"Dark ruby-red. Inviting aromas of black raspberry, brown spices, bitter chocolate and violet. In a rather fat, ripe style for the vintage but showing a slightly medicinal quality and little easy sweetness to its flavors of dark raspberry, spices, menthol and underbrush. Finishes with substantial dusty tannins and savory soil tones. Still a bit reduced and difficult to taste today, this wine will need at least a few years of bottle aging."
iVious Media
, January 2018