A ripe and super-fresh nose offers up notes of black raspberry, plum liqueur, Asian-style tea, and a whiff of incense. The racy, intense, and mineral-driven big-bodied flavours retain outstanding delineation as well as an abundance of palate-soaking dry extract before delivering stunningly good length. This incredibly powerful effort is both classy and highly complex and like the Bonnes Mares, is a wine that will live for decades. With that said, it's not so backward and compact to preclude it from being approachable after only 10 to 12 years.