" Dense dark red shaded colour. Dense, dark and concentrated fruit which needed time in glass to shake off its brooding animal characters. Once released, it proved very taut, almost quivering with the fleshy fruit weight, but that was the velvet. Inside there was an iron fist of tannin and acidity, mineral and backbone which strongly intimates that this wine needs more time, possibly a lot more time to integrate and reveal its true self. "