2000 Domaine du Cayron Gigondas
This wine retains its dark to the rim color, as if it has not aged a day since release. It's still blocky/chunky in texture, and there's more than a little sweetness to the fruit, though it's balanced by a subtly herbal bitterness that hits on the finish. Not much in the way of aged/developed character, such that a sense of suspended animation actually takes away from the wine a bit. I wonder that it might never develop much in the way of leathery/earthy elements, and might instead just drop fruit and fade into the distance.