Allen Meadows - Score: 91-94 (2020 January)

This is the first wine to display any appreciable reduction and it presently flattens the underlying fruit. Otherwise there is a really lovely texture to the medium weight plus flavors thanks to the abundance of mid-palate sap that coats the mouth and buffers the moderately firm, complex and lingering finish. This muscular and very serious effort is shaped by a very firm tannic spine that signals clearly this will need time.