From the outstanding 1990 vintage and scoring 88100 parker points the color is a healthy dark rubypurple aromatically the wine has opened considerably revealing plenty of cranberry black cherry and cassis fruit there are also notes of lavish new oak earth and cedar in the moderately intense bouquet the wine is medium bodied with sweet fruit gobs of glycerin a hallmark of many 1990s and soft tannin it has fleshed out considerably with the tannin becoming better integrated it