The 2006 Horizonte de Exopto is 80% Tempranillo, 10% Garnacha, and 10% Graciano aged for 10 months in new, mostly French oak. Inky purple-colored, the aromatics are a bit muted and the wine is tightly wound but loaded. Notes of cedar, smoke, licorice, and blackberry are followed by a dense, powerful wine with excellent flavors and substantial ripe tannin. Give it another 6-8 years of cellaring and then drink it through 2030. Exopto Cellars’ top wine is called Exopto. The 2006 was reduced, brooding and difficult to assess. The individual components seem to be present but judgment is temporarily reserved. Importer: Patrick Mata, Ole Imports; www.oleimports.com