Deep, bright red colour with good tints of purple. The bouquet has a lot of char-oak and mocha, plus creosote, soy sauce, tapenade. The wine is rich and dense on the tongue, very concentrated and powerful, with lashings of tannin, ripe and round and supple but persistent. Tar and slightly bitter espresso coffee on the palate, a powerhouse of a wine, the finish lasting and lasting.