...Revealing exceptional intensity along with a flamboyant open-knit personality the 2002 Jericho Canyon Proprietary Red...exhibits a deep purple color along with sweet fruit and juicy smoky bacon fat notes intermixed with creosote creme de cassis scorched earth and toasty oak...voluptuously-textured...

A quick check of the label shows 14.7% alcohol here, but there is little about this wine that indicates such ripeness. Its main traits are poise, proportion and balance with fruit to the fore of its deftly placed oak. It smacks of ripe cherries, vanilla and a bit of milk chocolate and its sustained, lightly tannin-firmed finish is marked by the same sense of finesse that marks every step of its carefully crafted course.

This wine starts with a dense rich core of fleshy mocha-laced currant fresh earth plum and blackberry fruit firming up with rich chewy tannins but the flavors push through on the finish revealing added facets of depth and concentration...