I tasted the 2001 vintage of this wine on 12 Jan 2003 when it was 2 years old and gave it a rating of good.
The wine had a quite deep ruby red colour, with a pale pink edge. It showed an intense raspberry fruit, and light herb and earth bouquet. This wine had a dry earthy tannic oak start, and rich strong peppery cherry fruit. It had well integrated flavours, medium body, and was a dry smooth style. This was quite an impressive, moderately complex wine.
I tasted the 2001 vintage of this wine on 21 Jun 2003 when it was 2 years old and gave it a rating of ok+.
The colour was medium-deep red, with a slightly brown edge. There was a spicy raspberry and cherry fruit bouquet. The taste had smooth soft cherry fruit, light tannins, and was crisp and dry. This was a soft dry pleasant style, but fairly light and simple.
Note 1: I am not really a wine expert (just an enthusiastic amateur), so please don't take my recommendations as anything more than a rough guide to these wines. I can take no responsibility if you buy a lot of this particular wine, on my recommendation, and then regret it!
Note 2: You may not fully agree with my evaluation of these wines, as a lot of this is quite subjective. I tend to put a lot of emphasis on complexity and intense characteristic and varietal flavours and bouquet, so if you disagree you might just have different priorities.
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