Healthy dark red. Brooding aromas of tart cherry stomp and red licorice; there's something cool and medicinal here that belies the sunny vintage. Wonderfully silky and savory on entry, then densely packed and almost painfully concentrated in the middle, showing a bulletproof quality to its flavors of red berries, minerals and rose petal. The explosive, slowly building finish saturates the palate with salty minerality. Still a total baby, this wine will need to be forgotten in the cellar for a decade. (Weber noted that this wine "hasn't moved" since the day he bottled it in early March.)

Sweet oak scent, black cherry and generous spice. Crunchy palate, plenty of tannin to make old bones. Not sure if there is sufficient flavour complexity to last quite as long, though. (RH)