From the excellent 1998 vintage this stunning wine scores 95100 parker points and this immense concentrated majestic old style offering boasts a dense rubypurple color in addition to a gorgeous nose of licorice tobacco dried herbs smoke blackberries cassis and aged beef sensationally rich ripe full bodied and unctuous with high levels of tannin this is a classic vin de garde requiring another 2 4 years of cellaring it should keep for 20 25 years drink now 2026 this vint