The impact of this wine makes it feel larger than life, the most powerful of the 2001s in our tasting. Closed and unyielding at first, it opens to a vast expanse of flavor, from dates to figs and walnut skin. Scents of smoke and jasmine seem to rise out of the earthiness of the tannin, a robust structure that isn't weighed down by the wine's extract. Instead, the structure and extract act as a wellspring, the source of a continual flow of complex flavors. A long-term wine, this needs another eight to ten years to begin to show its best. - 94 Points, Wine & Spirits Magazine