The palate has tension from the outset which gives way to mouth-filling full-bodied mid. There is evidence of fruit restraint, but the back-palate is currently reticent and unyielding. As a result, it is front-palate dominant at present. The texture is grainy, if slightly on the warm side of alcohol, but there is plenty of material here to pad out the palate as it settles into its skin in bottle. As it breathes, more delineation appears on the nose and the palate also starts to take on more of a line from start to finish. 17.0