This wine is spectacular. It displays a profound nose of ripe dark fruits, earth, and touches of wild mushrooms. On the palate, this masculine, powerful, highly-extracted, and complex wine is thickly-textured, massively-concentrated, full-bodied, and jam-packed with seductively sweet blackberries and cassis. Projected maturity: 2004-2010. Bravo! Clair invited me to re-taste this wine and I am pleased to report that his opposition to fining and filtering combined with his gentle touch at bottling produced a gorgeous wine that fulfilled all of my original expectations (first described in Issue # 111). Importer: Vineyard Brands, Birmingham, AL; tel (205) 980-8802.