This is a beautifully balanced wine with an international appeal in a class of its own with undeniable quality. A wine so great hits you in the soul and supersedes any contextual notion of your own personal reaction. Pure and precise red and black currants aromas with fantastic earthy intensity and dried wildflower notes. Medium to full-bodied and plentiful, the range of expressive fruit shows a wine still holding onto its youth but finally inching into secondary territory, beginning to show what is in store for the long haul. Plenty of primary red and black fruit and a tremendous sense of its earthy-mineral expression imbued with a spine of racy, tart acidity with blood orange quality. The finish is exceedingly long and refined, balanced, balletic, mineral-driven, and floral, and resolves with crushed cocoa nibs and a kiss of minty freshness. Spectacular. (JC)