This is an impressive, fairly dense and voluminous left bank cabernet based red, with the 2009 vintage packing in...

Markedly ripe, even slightly raisined/dried fruit characterizes the nose, like dried figs and dates and dried...

A very salty, savory Saint-Estephe with tannins that are still youthful and drying. Good concentration of fruit but...

Ripe and silky cabernet sauvignon, loaded with blackberry and cassis. Tannins are ripe, but still big and grainy....

Anything but shy, modern, heavily oaked and brash. How it can be viewed as anything but exorbitance for Saint Estèphe...