Opaque ruby. A highly perfumed bouquet evokes red/blue fruit preserves, candied flowers and Asian spices, along with a smoky mineral overtone that gains in volume as the wine opens up. Impressively concentrated yet lively...

An elegant version, showing a pleasing freshness, with a sense of restraint and integration to the concentrated flavors of ripe black plum and warm fig, plus notes of dried mint, black tea, licorice, vanilla and leather...

The 2014 La Dama, as with the El Terroir bottling, is produced with Garnacha grapes from vines planted starting in 1903. They told me they consider 2014 a beautiful vintage, healthy and balanced (although the organic and...