2005 Directors' Cut: Luscious & Lovely

Sweet, warm, luscious and lovely. Lots of big, syrupy, blueberried, curranty fruit, ably matched to a swoon of soft, creamy, smoky oak.   It finishes gravelly and tannic, a fact that adds interest, but does not detract from the smoothness of the show....The fruit and oak are beautiful. 

Drink: 2007-2012. 90 points.