This is very suave with mocha and smoldering tobacco flavors laced with fig plum and blackberry notes. A flash of sweet tapenade and iron helps extend the finish which has lovely latent minerality. This shows great restraint considering its power of fruit. Best from 2015 through 2027. 2250 cases made. -JM

A flamboyant St.-Emilion this largely-Merlot blend displays notes of Christmas fruitcake cedar wood tobacco leaf and loads of black currant and blackberry fruit. A showy extravagantly concentrated hedonistic style of St.-Emilion with some wood smoke and roasted herbs adding nuance to the full-throttle aromatics and long lush silky flavors this wine can be drunk now or cellared for up to 15+ years.