The 2006 Collioure les Junquets is pungently scented with lavender rosemary and star anise along with cassis and slightly detached notes of resin spice and vanilla from toasted oak. Impressively concentrated on the palate it remains somewhat superficially marked by its wood a circumstance which I am inclined to believe might long prevail. But there is considerable compensation in the wine's complexity as well as refined tannins. Black pepper and smoke meat along with a reprise of fragrant herbs mark the lingering finish. I would be inclined to drink this in the next 4-6 years and not to bank on the wood element entirely integrating.-David Schildknecht