Luxurious and smooth, this offers blackberry, blueberry, black cherry, a mild acidity and moderate oak treatment (22 months in 71% new French oak) so the vanilla notes come through along with the fruit. The tannins are fairly mild so this is a wine you can open and drink tonight without needing to decant. It’s also a wine that perfectly encapsulates the black cherry-based fruit of the Rutherford AVA.