Brown brick red color. Aromas and flavors of black cherry and red plum, cedar and herbs, mocha, and black tea and grilled pepper with a satiny, lively, bone-dry medium body and a tingling, interesting, medium-long finish with accents of blackberry, cassis and plum, cigar box, leather, and mocha, and black tea with violets and cassis with chewy, grippy tannins and light oak flavor. A wonderful food wine with structure and complexity; wines like this are how the next generation will discover wine and the older generations will have bottles such as these as their daily drinkers.