"This wine is an immensely successful effort for the vintage, with elegance, sweetness, and a medium plum/garnet color already beginning to show some lightening at the edge. It has developed quickly, although the wine has surprising fruit and personality for such a dreadful vintage. The wine shows good cedary, spice box, cigar, and tobacco notes intermixed with minerals, sweet plum, and cherry. The finish is a bit short and attenuated, but the aromatics, attack, and mid-palate are delicious." -Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Wine Spectator
WS88
"Has less richness than the 1993, showing lovely berry and black cherry flavors that shine through a layer of grainy tannins."
