"Fully mature and developed, yet still vibrant with fruit and braced with lively acidity, the wine was rich and silky and beautifully restrained, with dried cranberries and dark plums and a whiff of cinnamon and nutmeg. Tannins were gentle and rounded and the wine was harmonious and balanced in all its elements. At 18 years old it is a quiet and elegant charmer.
But this charmer still had sufficient vitality to meet and marry with a Kobe beef burger, a thick grilled pork chop and a triple rack of BBQ Baby Back Ribs. The wine handled all three with consummate ease.
The pedigree held true in this lovely wine; Araujo did justice to the famous Eisele fruit. And for those still holding it, don’t fear: it will keep for several years to come."
