(a blend of 50% cabernet franc and 50% merlot; both the H Block and Variation One are from Hudson Vineyard fruit) Full red-ruby. Explosively aromatic nose melds blueberry cassis red cherry violet minerals brown sugar and a tobacco leaf note suggestive of a Cohiba robusto. Very intense and densely packed with urgent penetrating red berry bitter chocolate mineral and rose petal flavors. Superb thickness leavened by bright acidity. Wonderfully complex gripping wine with a firmly tannic very long back end. This grew more and more complex as it opened in the glass.