On the nose I was surprised to only get some white pepper. I was prepared to be disappointed until I tasted it. I was getting, leather, smoke, and wood. I felt as if I was sitting in a nice cigar lounge sipping on this wine. It was fantastic. A very rounded wine. The tannin's were very smooth. As the night progressed, these flavoured evolved to more fruit flavours such as cherry.
2015 vintage tasted in April 2019
Jim and I drank with pot roast Feb 2/2018 - quite bitter - Jim said the VQL version better - don't buy
Score - 92. (David Lawrason, winealign.com, Jan. 25, 2017) (Jan 14/18) - wine case (Dec/17)