Winemaker Michael Bucholz describes this as a full-bodied wine with prominent fruit aromas and flavours with traces of mint and coffee, backed by a gentle support of wood and supple tannins that make for easy drinking. While it can be enjoyed now, either on its own or with game dishes, red meat casseroles, roasts and robust cheeses, it has the structure to maintain its character, even enhancing in complexity with age, over the next several years.