A very showy vintage of RunRig that opens with plenty of sweet fruit and sweetly spiced oak. Everything is turned up, redolent with violets and peppery notes, tar and toffee, as well as chocolate, toasted almonds, vanilla, nougat and panforte and plum liqueur. It brightens and focuses with air. Really impressive. The texture is super layered and beautifully integrated. Totally seamless, it builds a long, smooth, sleeve-like core of dark cherries, blackberries and plums. Really pure and deceptively powerful. Impressive now, but best from 2020.

The 2013 RunRig is entirely fresh and marks a significant point in the aging evolution of this cuvée. Now 12 years from harvest, the wine shows youth and vitality, alongside a cavalcade of tertiary characters. This is the point at which one can stand and look both into the future (of what this wine will look like as an older wine) and see its past, too (i.e., what the wine looked like in its youth). These precipice vintages are important to mark, and in the context of the RunRig, that precipice may occur at 12 years from harvest. Aromatically, for the first time one notes raspberry, cherry, licorice, blood plum, star anise and cracked fennel seeds. There is also leather, autumn leaves and a hint mahogany, all of which merge seamlessly. 15.5% alcohol, sealed under natural cork. - Erin Larkin

This is tremendous, opening up chocolaty and creamy, with wild raspberry and cherry flavors that expand to detailed notes of nutmeg, licorice and dried rose petal. An expressive red, lingering on a smooth, velvety body. Shiraz and Viognier. Drink now through 2030. 1,250 cases made. — MW