I don’t know why this bottling is so variable over the years. The wine has been weedy and thin, and sometimes opulent and ageworthy. This one falls inbetween. It has harsh tannins and acvids and green, minty flavors, but also good cherry and blackberry flavors and lots of new oak. Doesn’t seem like an ager.——S.H.(2/1/2007)—— 86