Vinous - Score: 93-96 (2016 Mar.)

Vivid purple. Powerful, mineral-accented blackberry, licorice pastille, pungent flowers and olive on the nose, and a smoky bacon nuance in the background. Velvety, focused and impressively concentrated, offering black and blue fruit liqueur and candied violet flavors that tighten up slowly with air. Supple, harmonious tannins make a late appearance, giving shape to a strikingly long, smoke- and mineral-tinged finish.