8 A wonderfully brooding, tannic wine that offers huge structure along with richness, dark plum skin fruit flavors and a tense mineral and flint texture. Obviously for aging over 4–5 years. Imported by Luiz’s Grocery And Liquors. ——R.V.(8/1/2011)—— 90

A big dense wine, as tough as the rocks that make up the Dao soil. Its fruit is certainly there, a welter of black berries and plums. But in this young wine, the tannins are still in charge. This is going to develop, opening up, becoming less mineral, over the next three years.——R.V.(8/1/2009)—— 88