Vibrant red purple. Opens with a pongy baindaid and chook poo nose. Over about 30 minutes, this blows off, and the nose shows some mintiness and other spicy tones. The palate similarly started out as dullish black fruits, but freshened up dramatically to show mid weight fruits, savoury notes ( I wish I could describe these better). Has the structure to go another 5 years.
cheers
Andrew