...The saturated blue/purple color offers up notes of ripe black fruits intermixed with graphite vanilla mineral and spice. Extremely thick with a viscous texture good underlying tannin and acidity and fabulous length (nearly 50 seconds) this is certainly a prodigious effort that is now living up to the fame and extraordinary quality of this vintage. Nevertheless I thought the wine needed about five years of cellaring two years ago but now I tend to think it needs at least another 5-7 years of cellaring before it will begin to become an adolescent. It is a majestic multi-dimensional individualistic wine that certainly is world-class and undoubtedly profound...