An immature ruby red, very little in the way of color development.  A little driven and burly on the nose: oversized cassis, blackberry and barrel tones.  Still quite primary.  International in style.  A forced roundedness and a monocromatic amplitude on the palate.  A bit of a confection: a ‘Boo Berry’ intensity here, black fruit without the rocks.  Feels gussied up.  Large-scaled, unsophisticated, overworked tannin: strident on cork pop, they wither with air.  They overdid the extraction, we think.  Foie gras fruit with no sense of place gets dull pretty fast.  In a phrase, not for us.