Slightly more subtle, though still moderately prominent, wood sets off the very spicy, cool, and elegant aromas that consist mostly of red and dark currant and iron-inflected earth. There is very good volume and verve suffusing the refined and classy middle-weight flavours that brim with minerality and dry extract where the latter helps to buffer the very firm tannic spine shaping the compact, powerful, and strikingly long finale. This excellent effort will likely need a minimum of 10 years before it can be reasonably approached and should reward up to 20 years of keeping.