(2000) Intense, dark, purple/black with a hint of light at rim. Beautifully sweet and concentrated, powerful nose with aromas of ripe cherry, blackcurrant and vanilla. It is rich and cedary too with earthy flavours and little notes of incense and violets. The palate is ripe, full and concentrated with bags of cinammon and clove spice, leather, tobacco and fine, ripe but grippy tannins. There are deep seams of fruit in this wine and wonderful balance and complexity finishing long and mellowed by toasty vanillin oak. A great wine and built for development - I know where my £160 would go between this and the previous wine.