Aged in 100% new French oak, this wine comes across as backward, youthful, and unevolved. It reveals a classic, black currant, vanillin, weedy tobacco, and peppery-scented nose, medium to full-bodied, powerful flavors, high tannin, and an unevolved, youthful taste and texture. This wine requires 2-4 years of cellaring; it should keep for 15 or more years. The Lynn brothers, who for years supplied grapes to some of the top cuvees of Winn and John Ridoch, have begun to estate bottle their production. This is a well-made, tightly-knit wine that was extremely youthful and unevolved when I tasted it. It possesses the potential to improve in the bottle, so my rating may turn out conservative Imported by Dan Phillips' company - The Grateful Palate, 601 Del Norte Blvd., Unit G, Oxnard, CA 93030; tel. (888) 472-5283, fax (805) 278-9085. Readers will also immensely enjoy his well-written catalogue which bears the same name - The Grateful Palate.