95 Sam Kim - Wine Orbit

This offers exceptional value for a premium wine. Compelling and gratifying, yet it's not over done or blowsy. The fabulously appealing bouquet shows blackberry, dark plum, dried herb and roasted nut characters, followed by a succulent palate that exhibits fine, grainy texture and a super-long finish. The wine is brilliantly polished and framed, and destined to develop gracefully. A blend of 40% cabernet sauvignon, 39% merlot, 16% cabernet franc, 5% petit verdot.

95 Raymond Chan - Raymond Chan Wine Reviews

40% Cabernet Sauvignon, 39% Merlot, 16% Cabernet Franc and 5% Petit Verdot, fermented to 13.5% alc., the wine aged 15 months in approx. 35% new French oak. Full, even black-red colour with youthful purple hues. This has a tightly concentrated, penetrating nose of ripe blackberry, blackcurrant and redcurrant fruit aromas unfolding cassis, dark herb, liquorice and minerally detail. The aromatics are presented with precision, focus and depth. Medium-full bodied, the palate is very firmly concentrated with a deep core of ripe black and red berry fruits. Complexing herb, leaf, tobacco and black plum flavours add to an array that blossoms with richness and vibrancy. The tannins are very refined and powdery, providing plenty of structure and support, building and growing in prominence, and carried by refreshing lacy acidity to a long and sustained finish. This is a sophisticated Bordeaux-varietal red with intensity and refined structure. 10+ years ahead.

94 Campbell Mattinson - The Wine Front

Big hit of splintery, cedary wood to kick things off. Some vanilla whiffs, dark chocolate, rose petal and charry characters, with a bold, strike out of dark, deep, brooding black berry fruit and cassis. Some minty notes creep in, more so to taste, but again, it's about potency of flavor and concentration. Long in flavor, honed with firm, grainy tannins, finishes with building, satisfying pucker. Structure, tension, drive. Has it all. Great wine.