Deep brick-colored, the 1994 Hill of Grace offers notes of stewed plums, dried berries and baking spices with nuances of aniseed, vanilla and potpourri. Medium to full-bodied, it has great concentration and structure in the mouth, with crisp acid plus firm, grainy tannins, and is packed with layered, dried berry and spice flavors before finishing long with tons of remaining fruit. This wine still has many years to go. Drink it now to 2030+. - LPB

Exceptional vintage. Quite a tarry first impression here, this has a strong stamp of the vineyard in a good season that has brought the best characters to the fore. Plenty of fragrant five spice and a clear dried sage leaf nuance too, lovely aromatics, bright red and purple cherries, berries and plums, sarsaparilla, all components looking good here. The palate has strength, focus and drive with bright tannins and crisp acid framing supple fruit flesh - many good years ahead. Drink in 2016.

Rich in texture and extraordinarily deep in flavor, a bottomless well of ripe purple plum, black cherry, blackberry, anise and mint flavors that remain round and powerful through the finish, yet maintain a surprisingly elegant feel throughout. Approachable now. Best after 2004. 500 cases made. — HS