Deep, dense, dark purple/red colour. The bouquet is concentrated essence of blackberry and smoky oak, slightly plain but pleasant, and perhaps just a little undeveloped. Then the tannins ride in on the palate and swamp everything. It was unbalanced and barely palatable at first taste, being too grippy. But it grew on me with exposure. It's a wine that cries out for protein-rich food to mop up those tannins. Come back in a decade and it will be very good indeed