2001: A fascinating bouquet with extremely interesting complex highlights of toasted oak, sweet black cherries, vanilla & chocolate. The mouth flavors are generous with rich, ripe, chewy soft tannins & highly extracted amounts of cherry. Big and fruit forward, this wine will appeal to even the most die hard Cabernet drinker. 2002: This merlot is deep and dense with aromas of black cherry, blueberry, chocolate, cinnamon and toasty sweet oak. On the palate, it's lush and silky with deep, concentrated flavors of chocolate, black cherry and seet oak; it's excellently balanced for drinking now, but has the structure to age gracefully in your cellar over the next ten years.