Fifteen years on tasting.

Limpid garnet.  A smoky-sweetness from the stems.  Plenty of fruit and guts, with a tilt towards avuncular.  It’s sizeable and giving, a remoulade of smudged raspberry and kir.  Peaty soil-tones.  Some ripe tannin.  Dusty, dime-store finish.  Carnal Jarrons.  Drinking well now; you can still keep this.  Now – 2017+.