The 2011 Paleo Rosso gives you every reason to fall in love. What impresses the most is the floral imprint this 100% Cabernet Franc offers on the bouquet. It’s really quite remarkable: Pressed rose and dried lavender are almost perfume-like in intensity. In fact, I can’t remember a past edition of Paleo with a bouquet of this unique caliber. It boasts a huge sense of textural richness, with polished tannins and thick, dark extraction. The 2011 Paleo is particularly monumental in the mouth. Give it five to ten years to settle.

Deep ruby. Enticing aromas of raspberry syrup, cassis, aromatic herbs and quinine. Fresh and pure in the mouth, with rich flavors of red berries and cherry complicated by cocoa and coffee and lifted by a pungent floral element. Very cabernet franc! This very serious, brooding wine is still youthfully shut down but is a potentially great Paleo.