Ripe blackberry, cocoa and mint on the nose. Brambly red fruit palate with a tannic grip, finishes with notes of chapparel and licorice. This wine is all Zinfandel, from vines planted in 1999, so now attaining maturity. This was a low-yield year and the wine shows it with good density and depth to go with intense, spicy crushed blackberry fruit and some almond from American oak