This wine is big and burly, yet also velvety, with cassis and dark tea and tobacco aromas and flavors. There’s plenty of black fruit, licorice and cocoa—all wrapped in toasty oak—and the fine fruit-acid-tannin balance here portends a long life. Hold for four years; will keep a long time. Cellar Selection.——W.E.(8/1/2001)—— 92