(2025) From the dry-farmed Alta Vista vineyard, planted in 1972. Far Mountain say the natural contours of this hillside planting give many different expositions, and that such old, bush vines may well have created some mutations, or perhaps there is some Cabernet Franc co-planted. This was matured in French oak, 27% new barrels. It has a deep and saturated crimson/violet colour, and classic cassis and deep plummy aromas fringed by cedar and tobacco. There's a little glimpse of black olive too. Classic stuff on the palate, that juicy black fruit but a firm Sandalwood and spice background. Tannins are really quite grippy, which work with firm acidity to give the finish structure.