Bright, saturated medium ruby. Precise, perfumed scents of black raspberry, blackberry, licorice, violet, tropical dark chocolate and minerals. Juicy, densely packed and powerfully mineral, projecting terrific savory thrust and energy to its black fruit, licorice and bitter chocolate flavors. Offers a very attractive combination of chocolatey ripeness and brisk, savory mineral and herb notes from a cool year, with no easy sweetness at all. This penetrating, chalky, highly nuanced wine finishes with a firm tannic spine and terrific subtle length and lift. Still very unevolved and in need of patience. This is suaver and more refined than Salentein's single-vineyard Malbecs from 2015, suggesting gentler extraction and riper tannins. (from sandy loam soil with boulders and calcaire at an altitude of 1,300 meters)