This wine’s intense, black hole-esque color is foreboding and glass staining. The nose smells of fresh black currants, elderberries, tar and incense. The wine’s high intensity potency doesn’t stop there—the well-equilibrated palate is equally robust with plentiful extraction, lovely sapidity and dense fruit concentration. The explosive and bewitching finish doesn’t want to stop and brings a lovely refreshing quality to the palate that entices the sipper back to the glass. Drink now–2022.

— Published (2/8/2017)