92 Points - Stephen Tanzer's International Wine Cellar

"Opaque purple. Deep dark fruit liqueur aromas are strongly influenced by vanillin oak and roasted coffee, with a spicy cracked pepper quality adding energy. Bitter cherry and blackcurrant flavors are impressively structured and complicated by exotic floral pastille and Asian spices. Creamy dark berry flavors define the long, sappy finish. Very modern but also very seductive."~(ST)