A firm dark ruby/purple-colored wine with notes of compost black currants espresso roast and some soy this medium to full-bodied relatively powerful and concentrated wine shows elevated levels of tannin which have kept me from pulling the trigger and giving it a higher score. I thought everything seemed better balanced prior to bottling so perhaps the wine is going through a somewhat angular phase of development. It s certainly a big bold rather aggressively tannic style of d'Armailhac. Anticipated maturity: 2008-2019.