The deep garnet-purple colored 2014 Harlan Estate offers up subtle cassis, black cherries and crushed blackberries notes with tons of savory and earthy layers: forest floor, black soil, charcoal and dried herbs, plus wafts of violets and rare beef. Full-bodied and built like a brick house in the mouth, it has loads of tense, muscular fruit with many layers of earth, savory and spice nuances emerging, finishing with epic length. Around 2,100 cases were bottled.

One of the wines of the vintage, 2014 Harlan Estate is restrained and polished to the core. In fact, the 2014 might be the most polished young Harlan Estate I have ever tasted. Brisk and energetic at the outset, the 2014 possesses striking aromatic lift and precision, all of which highlight the purity of the fruit. Scents of dark cherry, plum, leather and spice open up with time in the glass, but it is the wine's overall feel and poise that make it pretty hard to resist, even at this very early stage.