This is a wine that feels old-fashioned but still not ready to drink. It smells nutty and dusty, with black pepper and anise accents. Its plum fruit core is wound very tightly, and encased in a fair amount of good-quality oak. Tannins are thick and wooly, so much so that I’d forget that I even had this in the cellar until Bush is out of office, then drink through 2014 or so. Imported by Broadbent Selections, Inc.——D.T.(8/1/2005)—— 92