This deep-garnet-colored wine has a nose of black cherry, butterscotch and mocha. Flavors of blackberry, cassis, dark chocolate, violet and mint roll across the palate in a sheath of opulent tannins that carry on into a lasting milk-chocolate finish.

A bountiful range of ripe black currant and black plum fruit is met by rich notes of fig cake, licorice, herbed olive, graphite and violet in this suave, expressive red, whose tapestry of flavors are enmeshed with chiseled tannins, creating a wine of both power and finesse. Drink now through 2033.