The 2006 The Pict is 100% Mataro (Mourvedre) aged in 100% new French oak for 24 months. The fruit was sourced from one section of a vineyard planted in 1927. Purple-colored it offers up an aromatic array of smoky oak forest floor black truffle blueberry and blackberry jam. On the palate it reveals a brawny masculine personality with some austerity that should round out with a few years of additional bottle age. It should offer prime drinking from 2013 to 2026. -Jay Miller